Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in mktexlsr (TeXLive)

CVE-2015-5700 · MEDIUM Severity

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

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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