Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20111109
Revision Date:2011-08-01Version:642
Title:RHSA-2011:1109: foomatic security update (Moderate)
Description:Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers, printer drivers, and driver descriptions. The package also includes spooler-independent command line interfaces to manipulate queues and to print files and manipulate print jobs. foomatic-rip is a print filter written in Perl.

  • An input sanitization flaw was found in the foomatic-rip print filter. An attacker could submit a print job with the username, title, or job options set to appear as a command line option that caused the filter to use a specified PostScript printer description (PPD) file, rather than the administrator-set one. This could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the "lp" user. (CVE-2011-2697)

    All foomatic users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2011-2697
    RHSA-2011:1109
    RHSA-2011:1109-01
    RHSA-2011:1109-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is installed
  • AND foomatic is earlier than 0:3.0.2-3.2.el4
  • AND foomatic is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is installed
  • AND foomatic is earlier than 0:3.0.2-38.3.el5_7.1
  • AND foomatic is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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