CVE-2015-5700

It was discovered that the mktexlsr script of the texlive package creates temporary files in an insecure way. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running mktexslr, or obtain sensitive information from the temporary files.

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