Bug 1291763 - nsis: privilege escalation and code execution vulnerabilities in generated NSIS installers
Summary: nsis: privilege escalation and code execution vulnerabilities in generated NS...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1291764
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Reported: 2015-12-15 14:59 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:46:35 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-12-15 14:59:57 UTC 
Installers generated by NSIS 2.46 are vulnerable to attacks that can lead to code execution and privilege escalation (if the installer is running with elevated privileges).

Debian's bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806036

Upstream bug:

http://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1125/
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-12-15 15:00:18 UTC 
Created mingw-nsis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1291764]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:46:35 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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