Issued:
2011-08-01
Updated:
2011-08-01

RHSA-2011:1109 - Moderate: foomatic security update

Synopsis

Moderate: foomatic security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

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.

Description

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

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support4.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support4.8ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support4.8i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian4ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support4.8ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems4s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems4s390
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support4.8s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support4.8s390
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation4ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation4i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server4ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server4i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop4i386

Updated Packages

  • foomatic-3.0.2-3.2.el4.src.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-3.2.el4.ppc.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-3.2.el4.s390.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-3.2.el4.i386.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-38.3.el5_7.1.src.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-3.2.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-38.3.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-38.3.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-38.3.el5_7.1.ppc.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-3.2.el4.ia64.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-38.3.el5_7.1.s390x.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-38.3.el5_7.1.ia64.rpm
  • foomatic-3.0.2-3.2.el4.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information