CVE-2007-6358

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-6358
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-12-15 01:46:00 UTC
Updated2017-11-16 02:29:00 UTC
Descriptionpdftops.pl before 1.20 in alternate pdftops filter allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pdfin.[PID].tmp temporary file, which is created when pdftops reads a PDF file from stdin, such as when pdftops is invoked by CUPS.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Glyph And Cog Pdftops All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO www.gentoo.org
Alternate pdftops Filter for CUPS Insecure Temporary Files - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
USN-563-1: CUPS vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Gentoo Bug 201042 - net-print/cups < 1.2.12-r4 insecure temporary file creation in pdftops (CVE-2007-6358) CONFIRM bugs.gentoo.org Exploit
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1437-1 cupsys DEBIAN www.debian.org
Gentoo update for cups - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian update for cupsys - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Article #515: alternate pdftops filter 1.20 - Common UNIX Printing System CONFIRM www.cups.org
Ubuntu update for cups - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
42029 OSVDB osvdb.org
pdftops.pl Alternate pdftops Filter for CUPS Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-12-18Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 2.1, 3, 4 and 5 do not ship with the alternate pdftops.pl CUPS printing filter that is affected by this flaw.
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