Link Following Affecting cups package, versions <1.4.4-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-CUPS-364629
- published 22 Jun 2010
- disclosed 22 Jun 2010
Introduced: 22 Jun 2010
CVE-2010-2431 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 cups to version 1.4.4-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cups package and not the cups package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
The cupsFileOpen function in CUPS before 1.4.4 allows local users, with lp group membership, to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /var/cache/cups/remote.cache or (2) /var/cache/cups/job.cache file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2431
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
- http://cups.org/articles.php?L596
- http://cups.org/str.php?L3510
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2856
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605397
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0811.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43521
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232
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