ubuntu · CVE-2016-1247

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-10-25 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:53:57 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-1247 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nginx), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): released 3, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1.

Description:

The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access to the web server user account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the error log.

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