CVE-2001-0906 (GCVE-0-2001-0906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-06-25 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:37
VLAI
Summary
teTeX filter before 1.0.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on temporary files that are produced when printing .dvi files using lpr.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/192647 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2974 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_IMMUNIX
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-102.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MD… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
Date Public
2001-06-22 00:00
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