Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385
- http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/253
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/257
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/237
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385
- http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/253
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/257
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/237