| Description: | OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and
other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.8 and earlier, when
starting the cupsd server with a Listen configuration item pointing to
a symbolic link, the cupsd process can be caused to perform an
arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable
access to the target. Given that cupsd is often running as root, this
can result in the change of permission of any user or system files to
be world writable. Given the aforementioned Ubuntu AppArmor context,
on such systems this vulnerability is limited to those files
modifiable by the cupsd process. In that specific case it was found to
be possible to turn the configuration of the Listen argument into full
control over the cupsd.conf and cups-files.conf configuration files.
By later setting the User and Group arguments in cups-files.conf, and
printing with a printer configured by PPD with a
`FoomaticRIPCommandLine` argument, arbitrary user and group (not root)
command execution could be achieved, which can further be used on
Ubuntu systems to achieve full root command execution. Commit
ff1f8a623e090dee8a8aadf12a6a4b25efac143d contains a patch for the
issue.
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