CVE-2007-6358 Information

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.

Reference

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