Samsung ml85p Printer Utility Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

BID:3008

Info

Samsung ml85p Printer Utility Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3008
Class: Race Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jul 10 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 10 2001 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by KF <[email protected]> on July 10th, 2001. Additional input has been provided by Charles Stevenson <[email protected]> and <[email protected]>. Also discovered independently by Karol Wiesek.
Vulnerable: Samsung ml85p Printer Driver 1.0
+ Ghostscript Ghostscript 5.50
+ Samsung Samsung ML-85G Printer 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Samsung ml85p Printer Utility Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

ml85p is a Linux driver for Samsung ML-85G series printers. It may be bundled with distributions of Ghostscript.

ml85p does not check for symbolic links when creating image output files.

These files are created in /tmp with a guessable naming format, making it trivial for attackers to exploit this vulnerability.

Since user-supplied data is written to the target file, attackers may be able to elevate privileges.

Solution / Fix

Samsung ml85p Printer Utility Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Solution:
Conectiva has released an advisory (CLA-2003:675) which contains fixes. Please see the attached advisory for details on obtaining fixes.

Mandrake has released an advisory (MDKSA-2003:010) which contains fixes. Please see the attached advisory for details on obtaining fixes.


Samsung ml85p Printer Driver 1.0

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