Debian DSA-2380-1 : foomatic-filters - shell command injection

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57520

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that the foomatic-filters, a support package for setting up printers, allowed authenticated users to submit crafted print jobs which would execute shell commands on the print servers.

CVE-2011-2697 was assigned to the vulnerability in the Perl implementation included in lenny, and CVE-2011-2964 to the vulnerability affecting the C reimplementation part of squeeze.

Solution

Upgrade the foomatic-filters packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.2-20080211-3.2+lenny1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.5-6+squeeze1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57520

File Name: debian_DSA-2380.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/12/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:foomatic-filters, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/4/2012

Reference Information

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

BID: 48674

DSA: 2380

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