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CVE-2011-2924

• 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 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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 14, 15
• Linuxfoundation Foomatic-Filters: through 4.0.12

References

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

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