foomatic-rip filter v4.0.12 and prior used insecurely creates temporary files for storage of PostScript data by rendering the data when…

Description

foomatic-rip filter v4.0.12 and prior 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

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.43% · top 62% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

• Other
• CWE-59 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• foomatic-filters · foomatic-filters

  • affected 4.0.12 and prior

References (6)

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2924 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2924 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2924 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/08/5/1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://lwn.net/Articles/459979/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-filters/4.0.12-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 23:15 UTC.