CVE-2009-5067 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in html2ps before 1.0b6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the \include file\ SSI directive. NOTE: this issue only might be a vulnerability in limited scenarios such as if html2ps is invoked by a web application or if a user-assisted attacker provides filenames whose contents could cause a denial of service such as certain devices.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548633 http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/81614/html2ps-1.0-beta5-File-Disclosure.html http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps-1.0b7.tar.gz http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:161 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36524 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526513