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CVE-2001-1593 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (a2ps), 6 status rows across 6 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid): not-affected 2, DNE 1, ignored 1, needs-triage 1, released 1.
Jakub Wilk found that a2ps, a tool to convert text and other types of files to PostScript, insecurely used a temporary file in spy_user(). A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running a2ps.