CVE-2010-2431

CVE Details

Release Date:

2010-06-22

Description

The cupsFileOpen function in CUPS before 1.4.4 allows local users, with lp group membership, to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /var/cache/cups/remote.cache or (2) /var/cache/cups/job.cache file.

See more information about CVE-2010-2431 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	2.6	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (cups)	ELSA-2010-0811	2010-10-29

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