CVE-2015-7529

sosreport en las versiones 3.x de SoS permite que usuarios locales ibtengan información sensible de archivos sosreport u obtener privilegios mediante un ataque de vínculo simbólico o un archivo de archivado en un directorio temporal. Esto lo demuestra sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar en /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$date.

An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the way sos created certain sosreport files. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to reveal the contents of sosreport files, or in some cases modify arbitrary files and escalate their privileges on the system.

The sos package contains a set of utilities that gather information from system hardware, logs, and configuration files. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging. An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the way sos created certain sosreport files. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to reveal the contents of sosreport files, or in some cases modify arbitrary files and escalate their privileges on the system. This issue was discovered by Mateusz Guzik of Red Hat.