Bug 1882285 (CVE-2020-13696) - CVE-2020-13696 xawtv: specially crafted input leads to information disclosure and user privilege escalation
Summary: CVE-2020-13696 xawtv: specially crafted input leads to information disclosure...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2020-13696
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1882286 1882287
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-09-24 09:04 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2020-09-24 14:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-09-24 14:41:37 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-09-24 09:04:26 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in xawtv where a local attacker could possibly use this issue to open and write to
arbitrary files and escalate privileges.
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-09-24 09:05:23 UTC 
Created xawtv tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1882287]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1882286]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-09-24 14:41:37 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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