Debian Security Advisory DSA 2892-1 (a2ps - security update)

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 spyuser function which is called when a2ps is invoked with the --debug flag insecurely use...

FreeBSD : a2ps -- insecure temporary file creation (9168253c-5a6d-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)

A Secunia Security Advisory reports that Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena has found temporary file creation vulnerabilities in the fixps and psmandup scripts which are part of a2ps. These vulnerabilities could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the credentials of the user running...

CVE-2004-1377

The CVE-2004-1377 issue affects the a2ps package: the fixps (fixps.in) and psmandup (psmandup.in) scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, with impact being partial integrity if exploited. Documentation in multiple advisories confirms this vu...

CVE-2004-1377: Undefined Security Weakness

The 1 fixps aka fixps.in and 2 psmandup aka psmandup.in scripts in a2ps before 4.13 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

a2ps: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background a2ps is an Any to Postscript filter that can convert to Postscript from many filetypes. fixps is a script that fixes errors in Postscript files. psmandup produces a Postscript file for printing in manual duplex mode. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the a2ps...