Security Advisory SA28139 - Alternate pdftops Filter for CUPS Insecure Temporary Files

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Secunia Advisory SA28139

Alternate pdftops Filter for CUPS Insecure Temporary Files

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SA28139

Release Date

2007-12-18

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

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Software:

Alternate pdftops Filter 1.x (script for CUPS)

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-6358 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in the Alternate pdftops Filter for CUPS, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the pdftops.pl file using temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via symlink attacks.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.20.

Solution
Update to version 1.20.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported in a Gentoo bug report.

Original Advisory
Gentoo:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201042

Alternate pdftops Filter:
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L515

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