PT-2008-6500 · Apple · Cups

Jon Oberheide · Published 2008-12-08 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-5377

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CUPS version 1.3.8

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/pstopdf.log temporary file.

Recommendations For CUPS version 1.3.8, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as no specific workaround is provided for this version.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5377

Affected Products

Cups

References · 8

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/7550 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://uvw.ru/report.sid.txt · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5377 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5377 · Note
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00347.html · Note