Bug 1803200 (CVE-2019-3699)

Summary:	CVE-2019-3699 privoxy: local privilege escalation from privoxy to root
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	cheese, gwync, karsten, lgriffin
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-02-14 16:38:53 UTC

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of privoxy on openSUSE Leap 15.1, Factory allows local attackers to escalate from user privoxy to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.1 privoxy version 3.0.28-lp151.1.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory privoxy version 3.0.28-2.1 and prior versions.

Reference:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157449

Comment 1 Gwyn Ciesla 2020-02-14 16:55:59 UTC

This appears to be SUSE-only, and does not impact Fedora. Please reopen if this is not the case, with details.