vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2011-2924: foomatic-filters -- security update

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 19, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

foomatic-rip filter v4.0.12 and prior used insecurely creates temporary files for storage of PostScript data by rendering the data when the debug mode was enabled. This flaw may be exploited by a local attacker to conduct symlink attacks by overwriting arbitrary files accessible with the privileges of the user running the foomatic-rip universal print filter.

Solution

debian-upgrade-foomatic-filters
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