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RHEL 4 / 5 : foomatic (RHSA-2011:1109)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55755

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated foomatic package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers, printer drivers, and driver descriptions. The package also includes spooler-independent command line interfaces to manipulate queues and to print files and manipulate print jobs. foomatic-rip is a print filter written in Perl.

An input sanitization flaw was found in the foomatic-rip print filter.
An attacker could submit a print job with the username, title, or job options set to appear as a command line option that caused the filter to use a specified PostScript printer description (PPD) file, rather than the administrator-set one. This could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the 'lp' user. (CVE-2011-2697)

All foomatic users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected foomatic package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2697

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1109

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55755

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1109.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/2/2011

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foomatic

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2697

RHSA: 2011:1109