UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4156

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4156

    Published: 2 Jun 2015Last Modified: 18 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-4156

    Summary:

    Details: GNU Parallel before 20150522 (Nepal), when using (1) --cat or (2) --fifo with --sshlogin, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4156, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00090.html, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2015-05/msg00024.html, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2015-04/msg00045.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4156

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: parallel

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/parallel@20161222-1~ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -20161222-1~ubuntu0.16.04.1

    Affected versions

    20141022+ds1-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High