2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-7758

Published: 08/01/2016 Updated: 30/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 3.3 | Impact Score: 1.4 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #756432 gummi: Uses predictable filenames in /tmp based on basename (CVE-2015-7758) Package: src:gummi; Maintainer for src:gummi is Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debianorg> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:45:07 ...