{"id":"CVE-2001-1593","details":"The tempname_ensure function in lib/routines.h in a2ps 4.14 and earlier, as used by the spy_user function and possibly other functions, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:31:53.834051Z","published":"2014-04-05T21:55:06Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2024:12797-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/237"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/253"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/257"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}