CVE-2015-5701

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=logVendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=logVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 25, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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