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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.2

CVE-2001-0906 json

teTeX filter before 1.0.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on temporary files that are produced when printing .dv…

published 2001-06-22 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0889

cvss
6.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

teTeX filter before 1.0.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on temporary files that are produced when printing .dvi files using lpr.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2001-0906 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 5.2 Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0 Red Hat Linux 7.0j Red Hat Linux 7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2001:102

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20990)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

0.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20990 teTeX 1.0.7 - Filters Temporary File Race Condition local, 2001-06-22
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2974 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/192647 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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