CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2923
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linuxfoundation foomatic-filters
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2923 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2923 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2923 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2923 Third Party Advisory