The cupshelpers scripts in system-config-printer in Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, as used by the automatic printer driver download service, uses an "insecure connection" for queries to the OpenPrinting database, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack that modifies packages or repositories.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published: 2011-11-29T17:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T00:09:18.351Z
Reserved: 2011-11-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2011-4405
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2011-11-29T17:55:02.387
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:32:20.760
Link: CVE-2011-4405
Redhat