CWE
59
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2015-5701

First published: Fri Aug 25 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Tug Texlive=20100722
Tug Texlive=20110705
Tug Texlive=20120701
Tug Texlive=20130530
Tug Texlive=20140525

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