EDB-7550

functional

CUPS < 1.3.8-4 - Local Privilege Escalation

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor Jon Oberheidepublished 2008-12-22catalog exploit_db
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Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2008-5377USmedium6.9Exploit
pstopdf in CUPS 1.3.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/pstopdf.log temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-1333.
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