CVE-2007-6358

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

pdftops.pl before 1.20 in alternate pdftops filter allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pdfin.[PID].tmp temporary file, which is created when pdftops reads a PDF file from stdin, such as when pdftops is invoked by CUPS.

Affected products

Glyph And Cog Pdftops: through 1.1.19rc1

References

http://osvdb.org/42029
http://secunia.com/advisories/28113
http://secunia.com/advisories/28139
http://secunia.com/advisories/28200
http://secunia.com/advisories/28386
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L515
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1437
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-14.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26919
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-563-1
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201042
http://osvdb.org/42029

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