UBUNTU-CVE-2001-1593

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2001-1593

    Published: 5 Apr 2014Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
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    Summary:

    Details: Jakub Wilk found that a2ps, a tool to convert text and other types of files to PostScript, insecurely used a temporary file in spy_user(). A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running a2ps.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: a2ps

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/a2ps@1:4.14-1.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:4.14-1.2

    Affected versions

    1:4.14-1.1

    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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