National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2431
Original release date:06/22/2010
Last revised:05/15/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cups.org/articles.php?L596
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605397
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0535
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-2856
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:234
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:232
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2176
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-201207-10
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43521
Type: Advisory
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0811
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cups.org/str.php?L3510
