Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cups (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-CUPS-633730
- published26 Jan 2014
- disclosed26 Jan 2014
Introduced: 26 Jan 2014
CVE-2013-6891 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cups package and not the cups package as distributed by Ubuntu.
lppasswd in CUPS before 1.7.1, when running with setuid privileges, allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a modified HOME environment variable and a symlink attack involving .cups/client.conf.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-6891
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6891
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html
- http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704
- http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56531
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015