RHSA-2016:0491: Moderate: foomatic security update

First published: Tue Mar 22 2016(Updated: )

Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers,<br>printer drivers, and driver descriptions. The package also includes<br>spooler-independent command line interfaces to manipulate queues and to<br>print files and manipulate print jobs.<br>It was discovered that the unhtmlify() function of foomatic-rip did not<br>correctly calculate buffer sizes, possibly leading to a heap-based memory<br>corruption. A malicious attacker could exploit this flaw to cause<br>foomatic-rip to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.<br>(CVE-2010-5325)<br>It was discovered that foomatic-rip failed to remove all shell special<br>characters from inputs used to construct command lines for external<br>programs run by the filter. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to<br>execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2015-8327, CVE-2015-8560)<br>All foomatic users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains<br>backported patches to correct these issues.<br>

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