CVE-2011-2899

Name	CVE-2011-2899
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
system-config-printer (PTS)	bullseye	1.5.14-1	fixed
	bookworm	1.5.18-1	fixed
	forky, sid, trixie	1.5.18-4	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
foomatic-gui	source	(unstable)	0.7.9.5	low
system-config-printer	source	squeeze	(not affected)
system-config-printer	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

- system-config-printer <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present; bug #639243)
[squeeze] - system-config-printer <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[lenny] - system-config-printer <no-dsa> (Minor issue)