CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-6358

Published: Dec 15, 2007 | Modified: Nov 16, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

pdftops.pl before 1.20 in alternate pdftops filter allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pdfin.[PID].tmp temporary file, which is created when pdftops reads a PDF file from stdin, such as when pdftops is invoked by CUPS.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pdftops Glyph_and_cog * 1.1.19rc1

References