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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : foomatic-filters vulnerabilities (USN-1194-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55957

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that the foomatic-rip Foomatic filter incorrectly handled command-line options. An attacker could use this flaw to cause Foomatic to execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user.

In the default installation, attackers would be isolated by the CUPS AppArmor profile.

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Solution

Update the affected foomatic-filters package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1194-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55957

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1194-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:foomatic-filters, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2697, CVE-2011-2964

BID: 48674

USN: 1194-1