CVE-2001-1593

Jakub Wilk found that a2ps, a tool to convert text and other types of
files to PostScript, insecurely used a temporary file in spy_user(). A
local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to
modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running a2ps.

Bugs

• <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385&gt;
• <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630&gt;