CVE-2004-1377

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: 2004-12-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) fixps (aka fixps.in) and (2) psmandup (aka psmandup.in) scripts in a2ps before 4.13 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

GNU A2Ps: 4.13, 4.13b
Turbolinux Home: all versions
Turbolinux Server: 7.0, 8.0
Turbolinux Workstation: 7.0, 8.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/13641
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-02.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12109
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/9168253c-5a6d-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18671
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18672
http://secunia.com/advisories/13641
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-02.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12109
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/9168253c-5a6d-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html

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