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CVE-2011-2964

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2964 describes a remote code execution vulnerability in foomatic-rip within Foomatic 4.0.6, affecting Linux Foundation's foomatic-filters. Attackers can exploit this by crafting a malicious .ppd file containing a specially designed *FoomaticRIPCommandLine field. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity risk with a network attack vector, medium complexity, and potential for partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness of its potential impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:foomatic:4.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0495 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: foomatic-0:4.0.4-1.el6_1.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-2964Moderate

foomatic: Improper sanitization of command line option in foomatic-rip (foomatic.c)

Jun 7, 2011

References

bugzilla.novell.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/45477
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201203-07.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/68994
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/07/13/3
ExploitPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/07/18/3
ExploitPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/07/28/1
ExploitPatch
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1110.html
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1194-1
xerox.com / download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf