UBUNTU-CVE-2001-1593
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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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2001-1593, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1593
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
