Scientific Linux Foomatic Moderate Input Sanitization Issue CVE-2011-2697

Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:10:22 -0500
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From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: foomatic on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: foomatic security update
Issue Date: 2011-08-01
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-2697

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.

SL4:
 i386
 foomatic-3.0.2-3.2.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 foomatic-3.0.2-3.2.el4.x86_64.rpm
SL5:
 i386
 foomatic-3.0.2-38.3.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 foomatic-3.0.2-38.3.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team