National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0032
Original release date:01/27/2009
Last revised:01/28/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
CUPS on Mandriva Linux 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0, Corporate Server (CS) 3.0 and 4.0, and Multi Network Firewall (MNF) 2.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/pdf.log temporary file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (01/27/2009)
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Not vulnerable. Red Hat does not ship the vulnerable backend that causes this flaw.
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External Source: XF
Name: cups-pdflog-symlink(48210)
External Source: BID
Name: 33418
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:029
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:028
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:027
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021637