| 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, 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.
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)