CVE-2008-5034: A MENNUCC1 Printfilters-Ppd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

master-filter in printfilters-ppd 2.13 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/filter.debug temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating 'this package does not have " possibility of attack with the help of symlinks"'

Affected products

Published 2008-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.