CVE-2004-0967

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2004-09-30
Bugzilla:
140074: CVE-2004-0967 temporary file vulnerabilities in various ghostscript scripts.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The (1) pj-gs.sh, (2) ps2epsi, (3) pv.sh, and (4) sysvlp.sh scripts in the ESP Ghostscript (espgs) package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and other operating systems, allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Find out more about CVE-2004-0967 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140074

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (ghostscript) RHSA-2005:081 2005-09-28

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