CVE-2011-2923

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-11-19

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Foomatic-filters (Foomatic-filters)
• Foomatic-filters (Linuxfoundation)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2923
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2923