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critical 9.8

CVE-2010-5325 json

Heap-based buffer overflow in the unhtmlify function in foomatic-rip in foomatic-filters before 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a de…

published 10y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-5283

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.5%
EPSS 5.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the unhtmlify function in foomatic-rip in foomatic-filters before 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long job title.

Patch / fix

  • foomatic-filters Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.5-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2010-5325

  • foomatic RHEL 6 4.0.4-5.el6_7

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0491

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-5325 updated cvss 6.8

foomatic: potential remote arbitrary code execution

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) foomatic 4.0.4-5.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) foomatic 4.0.4-5.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) foomatic 4.0.4-5.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) foomatic 4.0.4-5.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0491
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 foomatic Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 foomatic, foomatic-filters
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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