PT-2005-4629 · Inkscape · Inkscape

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña · Published 2005-11-29 · Updated 2018-10-03 · CVE-2005-3885

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Inkscape versions prior to 0.41

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmpepsifile.epsi temporary file, which is created by the ps2epsi extension shell script ps2epsi.sh.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.41, update to version 0.41 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the ps2epsi.sh script until the update is applied.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-3885

DSA-916-1

Affected Products

Inkscape

References · 11

• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-3885 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-3885 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/14522 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3885 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3885 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/223-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321501 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17882 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16343 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17886 · Note