CVE-2018-1000517

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3935-1

Posted Apr 3, 2019

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3935-1 - Tyler Hicks discovered that BusyBox incorrectly handled symlinks inside tar archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted tar archive, a remote attacker could overwrite arbitrary files outside of the current directory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Mathias Krause discovered that BusyBox incorrectly handled kernel module loading restrictions. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended restrictions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, arbitrary, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-5325, CVE-2014-9645, CVE-2015-9261, CVE-2016-2147, CVE-2016-2148, CVE-2017-15873, CVE-2017-16544, CVE-2018-1000517, CVE-2018-20679

SHA-256 | d04293581994ba012e305b667f533a43f91c013c6da677eff4fa9c29ace725ff

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