CVE-2011-2899

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

pysmb.py in system-config-printer 0.6.x and 0.7.x, as used in foomatic-gui and possibly other products, allows remote SMB servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) NetBIOS or (2) workgroup name, which are not properly handled when searching for network printers.

Affected products

RedHat System-Config-Printer: 0.7.32.6, 0.7.32.7, 0.7.32.8, 0.7.32.9, 0.7.32.10, 0.7.60 (+161)

References

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/foomatic-gui/foomatic/pysmb.py?root=foomatic-gui&r1=1.2&r2=1.3&view=patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/45744
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1196.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025967
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-gui/+bug/811119
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728348
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/foomatic-gui/foomatic/pysmb.py?root=foomatic-gui&r1=1.2&r2=1.3&view=patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/45744
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1196.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025967
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-gui/+bug/811119
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728348

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