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CVE-2020-8017

race condition on texlive-filesystem cron job allows for the deletion of unintended files PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
SUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1affected texlive-filesystem before 2017.135-9.5.1
SUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4affected texlive-filesystem before 2013.74-16.5.1
SUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5affected texlive-filesystem before 2013.74-16.5.1
openSUSE / openSUSE Leap 15.1affected texlive-filesystem before 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1

CWE

CWE-367

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.