CVE-2013-6891

Publication date 31 December 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

lppasswd in CUPS before 1.7.1, when running with setuid privileges, allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a modified HOME environment variable and a symlink attack involving .cups/client.conf.

Status

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No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cups	13.10 saucy	Fixed 1.7.0~rc1-0ubuntu5.2
	13.04 raring	Fixed 1.6.2-1ubuntu8
	12.10 quantal	Fixed 1.6.1-0ubuntu11.5
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected

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References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2082-1
CUPS vulnerability
15 January 2014

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6891