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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2010-2431: CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2010-2431: CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/22/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-print-cups

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