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.