Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 19, 2019· Updated Aug 6, 2024
CVE-2011-2923
CVE-2011-2923
Description
foomatic-rip filter, all versions, 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.
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Affected products
2- foomatic-filters/foomatic-filtersv5Range: all versions
Patches
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References
4- access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2923mitrex_refsource_MISC
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
- bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2923mitrex_refsource_MISC
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