CVE-2004-0967

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0967
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-02-09 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe (1) pj-gs.sh, (2) ps2epsi, (3) pv.sh, and (4) sysvlp.sh scripts in the ESP Ghostscript (espgs) package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and other operating systems, allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-59 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 4.3 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 4.3.2 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.10.10 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.10.10 All mdk All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.10.10_1 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.10.10_1 All mdk All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.10.12cl All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.10.15 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.10.16 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.10cl All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.50 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.50.8 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 5.50.8_7 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 6.51 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 6.52 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 6.53 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 7.0.4 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 7.0.5 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 7.0.6 All All All
Application Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript 7.0.7 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GhostScript Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - UnixWare update for Ghostscript af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.23/SCOSA-2006.23.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.sco.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.org
usn/usn-3-1 - Ubuntu Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for ghostscript af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
136321 – CAN-2004-0967 temporary file vulnerabilities in various ghostscript scripts. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.19/SCOSA-2006.19.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.sco.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Secunia - Advisories - SCO OpenServer update for Ghostscript af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-09-07Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140074 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.

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