Please Install the Updated Packages.

system-config-printer is a print queue configuration tool with a graphical user interface. It was found that system-config-printer did not properly sanitize NetBIOS and workgroup names when searching for network printers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running system-config-printer. (CVE-2011-2899) All users of system-config-printer are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. Running instances of system-config-printer must be restarted for this update to take effect.

system-config-printer on CentOS 5

• http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-September/017991.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25