notfound 409356 2.4.2-2
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:20:09AM +0100, Klaumi Klingsporn wrote:

> After the permission-change of /usr/lib/backend/cups-pdf in
> cups-pdf_2.4.2-2 there is no output in $Home/PDF anymore.
> The permissions have to be set to 104754 to get an output:

> ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf
> -rwsr-xr-- 1 root lp 23776 2007-02-14 18:33
> /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf

> I don't think that there is a security hole, because no unprivileged
> need to be in the group lp. On my system the execution of the initial
> mentioned command:

> "/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf shadow user title 1 '' /etc/shadow"

> by an unprivileged user only results in:

> "bash: /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf: Keine Berechtigung"

This is a bug in CUPS's goofy plugin security model, not a bug in cups-pdf.

It is any case a separate bug from this security bug; reclosing.

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