CVE-2020-8017

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-8017
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-02 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-21 15:22:00 UTC
DescriptionA Race Condition Enabling Link Following vulnerability in the cron job shipped with texlive-filesystem of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allows local users in group mktex to delete arbitrary files on the system This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-9.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-367

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Application Opensuse Texlive-filesystem All All All All
Application Opensuse Texlive-filesystem - All All All
Application Opensuse Texlive-filesystem All All All All
Application Opensuse Texlive-filesystem - All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 - All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 sp1 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 - All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 sp1 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 sp5 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 sp5 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0804-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Bug 1158910 – VUL-0: CVE-2020-8017: texlive-filesystem: race condition on cron job, no longer use /usr/bin/safe-{rm,rmdir} CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Matthias Gerstner of SUSE

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