Medium: foomatic

Issue Overview:

It was discovered that foomatic-rip failed to remove all shell special characters from inputs used to construct command lines for external programs run by the filter. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2015-8560)

It was discovered that the unhtmlify() function of foomatic-rip did not correctly calculate buffer sizes, possibly leading to a heap-based memory corruption. A malicious attacker could exploit this flaw to cause foomatic-rip to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-5325)

Affected Packages:

foomatic

Issue Correction:
Run yum update foomatic to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    foomatic-debuginfo-4.0.4-5.11.amzn1.i686  
    foomatic-4.0.4-5.11.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    foomatic-4.0.4-5.11.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    foomatic-4.0.4-5.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    foomatic-debuginfo-4.0.4-5.11.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2010-5325, CVE-2015-8560

Mitre: CVE-2010-5325, CVE-2015-8560