CVE-2011-2923

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 19, 2019
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jul 27, 2011

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
foomatic-filtersfoomatic-filters	all versionsAffected

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2923

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