CVE-2011-2923: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

foomatic-rip filter, all versions, used insecurely creates temporary files for storage of PostScript data by rendering the data when the debug mode was enabled. This flaw may be exploited by a local attacker to conduct symlink attacks by overwriting arbitrary files accessible with the privileges of the user running the foomatic-rip universal print filter.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Linuxfoundation Foomatic-Filters: any version

Published 2019-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.