CVE-2016-1247
Published: 25 October 2016
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.
Notes
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS never got the update for CVE-2013-0337 which introduced this issue. |
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 7.8