CVE-2001-1593

Publication date 5 April 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
a2ps	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.10 utopic	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1:4.14-1.1+deb7u1build0.12.04.1
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

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Patch details

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
a2ps	Fedora: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1593