UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7529

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7529

    Published: 11 Dec 2015Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7529
    Aliases:
    USN-2845-1

    Summary:

    Details: sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an archive file in a temporary directory, as demonstrated by sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$date.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7529, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2845-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7529

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: sosreport

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1-1ubuntu2.2

    Affected versions

    3.0-1

    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
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