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CVE-2010-5325

foomatic: potential remote arbitrary code execution

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 5, 2015

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-131 · Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size