CVE-2015-4155 Information

Description

GNU Parallel before 20150422 when using (1) –pipe (2) –tmux (3) –cat (4) –fifo or (5) –compress allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Reference

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2015-04/msg00045.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2015-05/msg00024.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74962