National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1170
Original release date:01/10/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
a2ps 4.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the filename.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: BID
Name: 11025
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20040824 a2ps executing shell commands from file name
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: gnu-a2ps-gain-privileges(17127)
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5MP0N2KDPA.html
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2004:034
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 12375
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/283134
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FLSA:152870
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2004:140
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 57649
External Source: OPENPKG
Name: OpenPKG-SA-2005.003