CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2924
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 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.
Affected configurations
• linuxfoundation foomatic-filters (<= 4.0.12)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• fedoraproject fedora 14
• fedoraproject fedora 15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2924 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2924 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-filters/4.0.12-1 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lwn.net/Articles/459979/ Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2924 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/08/5/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2924 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2924 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-filters/4.0.12-1 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lwn.net/Articles/459979/ Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2924 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/08/5/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory