Link Following Affecting cups package, versions <1.7.1-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-CUPS-364429
- published 26 Jan 2014
- disclosed 26 Jan 2014
Introduced: 26 Jan 2014
CVE-2013-6891 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
cups
to version 1.7.1-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cups
package and not the cups
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6891
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0021.html
- http://www.cups.org/blog.php?L704
- http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56531
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-6891
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2082-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:015