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CVE-2020-8019

syslog-ng: Local privilege escalation from new to root in %post PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of syslog-ng of SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1; openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1, openSUSE Leap 15.1 allowed local attackers controlling the user news to escalate their privileges to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 syslog-ng versions prior to 2.0.9-27.34.40.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 syslog-ng versions prior to 2.0.9-27.34.40.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 12 syslog-ng versions prior to 3.6.4-12.8.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3 syslog-ng versions prior to 2.0.9-27.34.40.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS syslog-ng versions prior to 2.0.9-27.34.40.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 syslog-ng versions prior to 3.6.4-12.8.1. openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 syslog-ng versions prior to 3.19.1-bp151.4.6.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 syslog-ng versions prior to 3.19.1-lp151.3.6.1.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
SUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3affected syslog-ng before 2.0.9-27.34.40.5.1
SUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4affected syslog-ng before 2.0.9-27.34.40.5.1
SUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 12affected syslog-ng before 3.6.4-12.8.1
SUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3affected syslog-ng before 2.0.9-27.34.40.5.1
SUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSSaffected syslog-ng before 2.0.9-27.34.40.5.1
SUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1affected syslog-ng before 3.6.4-12.8.1
openSUSE / openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1affected syslog-ng before 3.19.1-bp151.4.6.1
openSUSE / openSUSE Leap 15.1affected syslog-ng before 3.19.1-lp151.3.6.1

CWE

CWE-61

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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