CVE-2011-2923 Path traversal in foomatic-filters

What is CVE-2011-2923?

CVE-2011-2923 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

foomatic-rip filter, all versions, 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.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-2923?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linuxfoundation Foomatic-Filters.

How do I fix CVE-2011-2923?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-2923 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2011-2923 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-2923 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2923, GHSA-m9x3-4xc7-wxxp.