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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2011-2924)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This package fixes CVE-2011-2924 by using mktemp when creating a debug log file in debug mode.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
217470	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-2924	Nessus	Misc.	medium
56287	Fedora 14 : foomatic-4.0.8-3.fc14 (2011-11205)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
56286	Fedora 15 : foomatic-4.0.8-3.fc15 (2011-11196)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
56013	Fedora 16 : foomatic-4.0.8-4.fc16 (2011-11118)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2011-2924

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

low

low

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