mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 3, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Aug 25, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Last updated
Feb 3, 2023
mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700.
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