Re: Bug#262402: Severity of bug #259993

2004-08-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 12:05:12PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > If cups-pdf invoked on behalf of a regular user is actually run with root > privileges (I haven't checked), then -dSAFER only alleviates the security > problems resulting from that situation, but it certainly doesn't end them,

Re: Bug#262402: Severity of bug #259993

2004-08-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:13:44 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > That is, an attacker could submit a print job containing PostScript > > commands which, when interpreted by gs, would open files, etc. with the > > privileges of cups-pdf (apparently,

Re: Bug#262402: Severity of bug #259993

2004-08-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > [Florian] > > > > l.s 69, 409 and 416: > > > > gs invoked this way allows any file operations > > [Upstream] > > True, but call is managed by the cups-pdf binary. I.e. as long as no bug > > allows insertion of malicious code into the syste