CVE-2001-1593
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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2014-04-05
- Last modified
- 2024-08-08
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Affected products
References
- 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
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630
