CUPS 1.3.8-4 - Local Privilege Escalation

CUPS 1.3.8-4 - Local Privilege Escalation / cve-2008-5377.c CUPS http://jon.oberheide.org Usage: $ gcc cve-2008-5377.c -o cve-2008-5377.c $ ./cve-2008-5377 $ id uid=0root gid=1000vm ... Information: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2008-5377 pstopdf in CUPS 1.3.8 allows local use...

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5377

pstopdf in CUPS 1.3.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/pstopdf.log temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-1333...