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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3429-1 foomatic-filters -- security update

Date Reported:

21 Dec 2015

Affected Packages:

foomatic-filters

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 806886, Bug 807993.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8327, CVE-2015-8560.

More information:

Michal Kowalczyk and Adam Chester discovered that missing input sanitising in the foomatic-rip print filter might result in the execution of arbitrary commands.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.17-1+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.17-5+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.17-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your foomatic-filters packages.