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HistoryMar 31, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

a2ps - security update

2014-03-3100:00:00
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6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

70.7%

Several vulnerabilities have been found in a2ps, an Anything to
PostScript converter and pretty-printer. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2001-1593
    The spy_user function which is called when a2ps is invoked with the
    โ€“debug flag insecurely used temporary files.
  • CVE-2014-0466
    Brian M. Carlson reported that a2psโ€™s fixps script does not invoke
    gs with the -dSAFER option. Consequently executing fixps on a
    malicious PostScript file could result in files being deleted or
    arbitrary commands being executed with the privileges of the user
    running fixps.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed
in version 1:4.14-1.1+deb6u1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:4.14-1.1+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your a2ps packages.

CPENameOperatorVersion
a2pseq1:4.14-1.1

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

70.7%