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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8842

Published: Apr 20, 2016 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
3.3
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8842
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 (including) 13.2 (including)
Systemd Ubuntu upstream *
Systemd Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Systemd Ubuntu vivid/ubuntu-core *
Systemd Ubuntu wily *

References

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