CVE-2010-2431

Description

The cupsFileOpen function in CUPS before 1.4.4 allows local users, with lp group membership, to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /var/cache/cups/remote.cache or (2) /var/cache/cups/job.cache file.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605397

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2856

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/43521

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0811.html

http://cups.org/str.php?L3510

http://cups.org/articles.php?L596

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

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