CVE-2004-1270

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2004-12-15
Bugzilla:
1617403: CVE-2004-1270 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22, when run in environments that do not ensure that file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are open when lppasswd is called, does not verify that the passwd.new file is different from STDERR, which allows local users to control output to passwd.new via certain user input that triggers an error message.

Find out more about CVE-2004-1270 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (cups) RHSA-2005:053 2005-02-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (cups) RHSA-2005:013 2005-01-12

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