Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-7529

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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...

SUSE CVE-2015-7529

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...

sos: Usage of predictable temporary files allows privilege escalation

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...