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PYSEC-2017-73
Details
sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an archive file in a temporary directory, as demonstrated by sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$date.
Are you affected?
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Affected packages
PyPI / sosreport
Introduced in:
3.0 No fixed version published yet for sosreport (pip). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.
References
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696 [REPORT]
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542 [REPORT]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188 [ADVISORY]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152 [ADVISORY]
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1 [ADVISORY]
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162 [WEB]
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0188.html [ADVISORY]
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0152.html [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3g56-2hh3-35ph [ADVISORY]