CVE-2011-2923

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
Linuxfoundation Foomatic-Filters: all versions

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2923
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2923
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2923
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2923
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2923

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