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foomatic: insecure temporary files

Package(s):foomatic CVE #(s):CVE-2011-2924 CVE-2011-2923
Created:September 26, 2011 Updated:September 27, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla

It was found that foomatic-rip filter used insecurely created temporary file for storage of PostScript data by rendering the data, intended to be sent to the PostScript filter, when the debug mode was enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks (overwrite arbitrary file accessible with the privileges of the user running the foomatic-rip universal print filter).

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11205 2011-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11196 2011-08-19

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