Acknowledged
Created: Dec 15, 2016
Updated: May 29, 2018
Found In Version: 7.0.0.21
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Userspace
The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10 allow local users with access to the web server user account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the error log.
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-1247
