Summary
The remote host is missing an update to foomatic-filters announced via advisory DSA 2380-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202380-1
Insight
It was discovered that the foomatic-filters, a support package for setting up printers, allowed authenticated users to submit crafted print jobs which would execute shell commands on the print servers.
CVE-2011-2697 was assigned to the vulnerability in the Perl implementation included in lenny, and CVE-2011-2964 to the vulnerability affecting the C reimplementation part of squeeze.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.2-20080211-3.2+lenny1.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.5-6+squeeze1.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.9-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your foomatic-filters packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-2697, CVE-2011-2964 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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