CVE-2020-15396: Race Condition
First published: Tue Jun 30 2020(Updated: )
In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| HylaFAX+ | <=7.0.2 | |
| Hylafax | ||
| Fedora | =31 | |
| Fedora | =32 | |
| openSUSE Backports | =15.0-sp1 | |
| openSUSE Backports | =15.0-sp2 | |
| openSUSE | =15.1 | |
| openSUSE | =15.2 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00046.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00054.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173521
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J52QFVREJWJ35YSEEDDRMZQ2LM2H2WE6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y46FOVJUS5SO44A2VEKR7DXEHTI4WK5L/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-06
- https://sourceforge.net/p/hylafax/HylaFAX+/2534/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y46FOVJUS5SO44A2VEKR7DXEHTI4WK5L/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J52QFVREJWJ35YSEEDDRMZQ2LM2H2WE6/
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