Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in abrt-hook-ccpp

CVE-2015-5287 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The abrt-hook-ccpp help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name, as demonstrated by /var/tmp/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump or /var/spool/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump.

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