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CVE-2016-1247

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 1.10.0-0ubu

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Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-40768

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 16

Exploit-DB

securityfocus.com

debian.org

youtube.com

legalhackers.com

ubuntu.com

seclists.org

security.gentoo.org

securitytracker.com

packetstormsecurity.com

lists.fedoraproject.org