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CentOS 4 / 5 : foomatic (CESA-2011:1109)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55839

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated foomatic package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers, printer drivers, and driver descriptions. The package also includes spooler-independent command line interfaces to manipulate queues and to print files and manipulate print jobs. foomatic-rip is a print filter written in Perl.

An input sanitization flaw was found in the foomatic-rip print filter.
An attacker could submit a print job with the username, title, or job options set to appear as a command line option that caused the filter to use a specified PostScript printer description (PPD) file, rather than the administrator-set one. This could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the 'lp' user. (CVE-2011-2697)

All foomatic users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected foomatic package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d1bb045

http://www.nessus.org/u?80b07c0d

http://www.nessus.org/u?87d903c7

http://www.nessus.org/u?a318f612

http://www.nessus.org/u?ef5af4e6

http://www.nessus.org/u?f880f6b4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55839

File Name: centos_RHSA-2011-1109.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/15/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.73

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:foomatic, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2697

RHSA: 2011:1109