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CVE-2015-5700
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-59
Description
mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Affected products
- Tug Texlive: 20100722, 20110705, 20120701, 20130530, 20140525
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/
- https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885
- https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=log
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/
- https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885
- https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=log
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