Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-3885 - Unspecified vulnerability in Inkscape 0.41
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
The ps2epsi extension shell script (ps2epsi.sh) in Inkscape before 0.41 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmpepsifile.epsi temporary file.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-916.NASL description Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Inkscape, a vector-based drawing program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-3737 Joxean Koret discovered a buffer overflow in the SVG parsing routines that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. - CVE-2005-3885 Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena noticed that the ps2epsi extension shell script uses a hard-coded temporary file making it vulnerable to symlink attacks. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 22782 published 2006-10-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/22782 title Debian DSA-916-1 : inkscape - buffer overflow code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-916. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(22782); script_version("1.21"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:19"); script_cve_id("CVE-2005-3737", "CVE-2005-3885"); script_bugtraq_id(14522); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"916"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-916-1 : inkscape - buffer overflow"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Inkscape, a vector-based drawing program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-3737 Joxean Koret discovered a buffer overflow in the SVG parsing routines that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. - CVE-2005-3885 Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena noticed that the ps2epsi extension shell script uses a hard-coded temporary file making it vulnerable to symlink attacks." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321501" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330894" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-916" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the inkscape package. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain inkscape packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.41-4.99.sarge2." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:inkscape"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/12/07"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/10/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/08/09"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"inkscape", reference:"0.41-4.99.sarge2")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-223-1.NASL description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that Inkscape last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 20766 published 2006-01-21 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20766 title Ubuntu 5.04 : inkscape vulnerability (USN-223-1) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-223-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(20766); script_version("1.14"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:33:00"); script_cve_id("CVE-2005-3885"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"223-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 5.04 : inkscape vulnerability (USN-223-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that Inkscape's ps2epsi.sh script, which converts PostScript files to Encapsulated PostScript format, creates a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could exploit this with a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Inkscape. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected inkscape package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:inkscape"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/12/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/01/21"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! ereg(pattern:"^(5\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 5.04", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"inkscape", pkgver:"0.40-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_NOTE, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "inkscape"); }