Vigil@nce - NSIS: file corruption
December 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: data creation/edition.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 03/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local attacker can create a symbolic link, in order to alter the
pointed file, with privileges of NSIS.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/NSIS-file-corruption-27929