CVEvulnerability
CVE-2001-1593
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu a2ps (<= 4.14)
• gnu a2ps 4.10.3
• gnu a2ps 4.10.4
• gnu a2ps 4.12
• gnu a2ps 4.13
• gnu a2ps 4.13b
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch pkgs.fedoraproject.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/237 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/253 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/257 seclists.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892 www.debian.org
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385 bugs.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch pkgs.fedoraproject.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/237 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/253 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/257 seclists.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892 www.debian.org
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385 bugs.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630 bugzilla.redhat.com