Upstream information

CVE-2015-7758 at MITRE

Description

Gummi 0.6.5 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary dot file that uses the name of an existing file and a (1) .aux, (2) .log, (3) .out, (4) .pdf, or (5) .toc extension for the file name, as demonstrated by .thesis.tex.aux.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 949682 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2015:2369-1 openSUSE-SU-2016:0574-1

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`gummi >= 0.7.4.3-2.6` `gummi-lang >= 0.7.4.3-2.6`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10107

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Oct 8 22:22:26 2015
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 22:45:57 2024