Upstream information

CVE-2015-7758 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 2.1
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 3.3
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 949682 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2015:2369-1 openSUSE-SU-2016:0574-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • gummi >= 0.7.4.3-2.6
  • gummi-lang >= 0.7.4.3-2.6
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10107

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Oct 8 22:22:26 2015
CVE page last modified: Sat Apr 12 19:19:49 2025