Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2011-2899 First vendor Publication 2011-08-31
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2012-06-15

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2899

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21646
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21646
Title: RHSA-2011:1196: system-config-printer security update (Moderate)
Description: 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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2011:1196-01
CESA-2011:1196
CVE-2011-2899
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
 Product(s): system-config-printer
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23306
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23306
Title: ELSA-2011:1196: system-config-printer security update (Moderate)
Description: 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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011:1196-01
CVE-2011-2899
 Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): system-config-printer
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 167

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for system-config-printer CESA-2011:1196 centos4 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1196_system-config-printer_centos4_x86_64.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for system-config-printer CESA-2011:1196 centos5 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1196_system-config-printer_centos5_x86_64.nasl
2011-09-23 Name : CentOS Update for system-config-printer CESA-2011:1196 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1196_system-config-printer_centos5_i386.nasl
2011-08-31 Name : CentOS Update for system-config-printer CESA-2011:1196 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1196_system-config-printer_centos4_i386.nasl
2011-08-27 Name : RedHat Update for system-config-printer RHSA-2011:1196-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_1196-01_system-config-printer.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
74870 Red Hat system-config-printer Network Printer Search NetBIOS / Workgroup Name...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2011-89.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_python-cupshelpers-111208.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_python-cupshelpers-120103.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_python-cupshelpers-111208.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_python-cupshelpers-120103.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1196.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20110823_system_config_printer_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-16 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_system-config-printer-120104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-08-30 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2011-1196.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-1196.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728348
MISC http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/foomatic-gui/foomatic/pysmb.py?root=foomat...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-gui/+bug/811119
REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1196.html
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025967
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/45744

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