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High USN-2845-1 2 CVEs

sosreport vulnerabilities

Published Dec 18, 2015 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Dolev Farhi discovered an information disclosure issue in SoS. If the
/etc/fstab file contained passwords, the passwords were included in the
SoS report. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3925)

Mateusz Guzik discovered that SoS incorrectly handled temporary files. A
local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files
or gain access to temporary file contents containing sensitive system
information. (CVE-2015-7529)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS sosreport 3.1-1ubuntu2.2

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2015-7529

    SoSReport Predictable Tmp File Names

    sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an archive file in a temporary directory, as demonstrated by sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$dat…

    sosreport sosreport sosreport Debian Ubuntu PyPI
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-3925

    sosreport in Red Hat sos 1.7 and earlier on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 produces an archive with an fstab file po…

    sosreport Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3925
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7529