CVE-2013-6891
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-01-26 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 17:53
Severity ?
Summary
lppasswd in CUPS before 1.7.1, when running with setuid privileges, allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a modified HOME environment variable and a symlink attack involving .cups/client.conf.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/56531Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319Exploit, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1
Impacted products
n/an/a
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