debian · CVE-2015-5701

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:58:25 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2015-5701 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (texlive-bin), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700.

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