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CentOS: (CVE-2015-8560) CESA-2016:0491: foomatic

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CentOS: (CVE-2015-8560) CESA-2016:0491: foomatic

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/23/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/06/2016
Modified
05/07/2019

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(s)

  • centos-upgrade-foomatic

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