Debian Security Advisory

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

Date Reported:
04 Jan 2012
Affected Packages:
foomatic-filters
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 635549.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-2697, CVE-2011-2964.
More information:

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.

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.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your foomatic-filters packages.