USN-2838-2: foomatic-filters vulnerability
16 December 2015
foomatic-filters could be made to run programs as the lp user if it processed a specially crafted print job.
Releases
Packages
- foomatic-filters - OpenPrinting printer support - filters
Details
Adam Chester discovered that the foomatic-filters foomatic-rip filter
incorrectly stripped shell escape characters. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the lp user.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-2838-1: libcupsfilters-dev, libfontembed1, cups-filters, cups-browsed, libfontembed-dev, libcupsfilters1, cups-filters-core-drivers