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CVE-2015-3315

abrt: Various race-conditions and symlink issues found in abrt

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.2

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 14, 2015

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

It was found that ABRT was vulnerable to multiple race condition and symbolic link flaws. A local attacker could use either of these flaws to potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of the abrt package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

It is recommended to disable abrt via the following command line, till the flaws have been resolved: sysctl -w kern.core_pattern=core

Note: This will reset, if abrt is re-started.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')