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SUSE: CVE-2015-8842: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2015-8842: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/20/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/20/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf in systemd before 229 uses weak permissions for /var/log/journal/%m/system.journal, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libgudev-1_0-0
  • suse-upgrade-libgudev-1_0-0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libgudev-1_0-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libudev-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libudev1
  • suse-upgrade-libudev1-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-sles12-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-sles12sp1-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-systemd
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-bash-completion
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-devel
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-sysvinit
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-gudev-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-udev

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:1346-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1351-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1
  • CVE-2015-8842

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