CVE-2001-1593

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The tempname_ensure function in lib/routines.h in a2ps 4.14 and earlier, as used by the spy_user function and possibly other functions, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Affected products

GNU A2Ps: through 4.14; 4.10.3, 4.10.4, 4.12, 4.13, 4.13b

References

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/237
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/253
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/257
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/237
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/253
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/257
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892

Get alerted when CVE-2001-1593 or the next vulnerability affects your stack