CVE-2001-1593
Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2001-1593
Summary:
Details: The tempname_ensure function in lib/routines.h in a2ps 4.14 and earlier, as used by the spy_user function and possibly other functions, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
References: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630, http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/237, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/253, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/257, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385
Affected packages
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
