CVE-2015-4156

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CVE-2015-4156

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CVE-2015-4156 at MITRE

Description

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.

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SUSE information

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

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	3.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 932143 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat May 23 22:21:02 2015
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:47:10 2022