CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-6358

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2007-12-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-12-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Description

pdftops.pl before 1.20 in alternate pdftops filter allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pdfin.[PID].tmp temporary file, which is created when pdftops reads a PDF file from stdin, such as when pdftops is invoked by CUPS.

Affected configurations

• glyph and cog pdftops (<= 1.1.19rc1)

References