National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1377
Original release date:12/27/2004
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The (1) fixps (aka fixps.in) and (2) psmandup (aka psmandup.in) scripts in a2ps before 4.13 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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: 12109
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 12108
Type: Patch Information
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200501-02
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: gnu-a2ps-psmanupin-symlink(18672)
External Source: XF
Name: gnu-a2ps-fixpsin-symlink(18671)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/9168253c-5a6d-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 13641
Type: Advisory