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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2015-8560: Security patch for foomatic (ALAS-2016-690)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 14, 2016
Added
Apr 21, 2016
Modified
Feb 2, 2018

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.4.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ; (semicolon) character in a print job, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8327.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-foomatic
Title
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