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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : foomatic-filters vulnerability (USN-2831-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87238

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Synopsis

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

Description

Michal Kowalczyk discovered that the foomatic-filters foomatic-rip filter incorrectly stripped shell escape characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the lp user.

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

Solution

Update the affected foomatic-filters package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2831-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87238

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2831-2.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/8/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:foomatic-filters, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8327

USN: 2831-2