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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2020-8017 Detail

Description

A Race Condition Enabling Link Following vulnerability in the cron job shipped with texlive-filesystem of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allows local users in group mktex to delete arbitrary files on the system This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-9.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.html Broken Link  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.html Broken Link  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910 Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910 Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition cwe source acceptance level NIST   SUSE  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-8017
NVD Published Date:
04/02/2020
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
SUSE