CVE-2004-1377

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

The (1) fixps (aka fixps.in) and (2) psmandup (aka psmandup.in) scripts in a2ps before 4.13 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

The (1) fixps (aka fixps.in) and (2) psmandup (aka psmandup.in) scripts in a2ps before 4.13 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-27 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

GNU a2ps 4.13

4.13

GNU a2ps 4.13b

4.13b

References

13641

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200501-02

Patch

12108

Patch

12109

Patch

http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/9168253c-5a6d-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html

gnu-a2ps-fixpsin-symlink(18671)

gnu-a2ps-psmanupin-symlink(18672)

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