CVE-2011-2899: Red Hat System-Config-Printer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pysmb.py in system-config-printer 0.6.x and 0.7.x, as used in foomatic-gui and possibly other products, allows remote SMB servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) NetBIOS or (2) workgroup name, which are not properly handled when searching for network printers.

Affected products

• Red Hat System-Config-Printer: version 0.7.32.6 only; version 0.7.32.7 only; version 0.7.32.8 only; version 0.7.32.9 only; version 0.7.32.10 only; version 0.7.60 only; …

Published 2011-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.