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 remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - foomatic: foomatic-rip (debug mode) insecure temporary file use in renderer command line by processing     PostScript data (CVE-2011-2924)

  - 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. (CVE-2011-2923)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - foomatic: foomatic-rip (debug mode) insecure temporary file use in renderer command line by processing     PostScript data (CVE-2011-2924)

  - 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. (CVE-2011-2923)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - foomatic: foomatic-rip (debug mode) insecure temporary file use in renderer command line by processing     PostScript data (CVE-2011-2924)

  - 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. (CVE-2011-2923)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

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
199274	RHEL 5 : foomatic (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199263	RHEL 4 : foomatic (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199255	RHEL 6 : foomatic (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	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

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CVE-2011-2924

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