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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-25T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:59:04.175Z

Reserved: 2015-07-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-5701

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-08-25T18:29:00.903

Modified: 2017-09-12T15:37:34.710

Link: CVE-2015-5701

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-01-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-5701 - Bugzilla