CVE-2010-2431

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    CVE-2010-2431

    Published: 22 Jun 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The cupsFileOpen function in CUPS before 1.4.4 allows local users, with lp group membership, to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /var/cache/cups/remote.cache or (2) /var/cache/cups/job.cache file.

    References: http://cups.org/articles.php?L596, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0811.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/43521, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2856, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535, http://cups.org/articles.php?L596, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605397, http://cups.org/str.php?L3510

    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
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