CVE-2024-35235 Affecting cups-lpd package, versions <1:2.3.3op2-27.el9_4
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- published 25 Jul 2024
- disclosed 23 Jul 2024
Introduced: 23 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-35235 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade AlmaLinux:9 cups-lpd to version 1:2.3.3op2-27.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2024:4776.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cups-lpd package and not the cups-lpd package as distributed by AlmaLinux.
See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.8 and earlier, when starting the cupsd server with a Listen configuration item pointing to a symbolic link, the cupsd process can be caused to perform an arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable access to the target. Given that cupsd is often running as root, this can result in the change of permission of any user or system files to be world writable. Given the aforementioned Ubuntu AppArmor context, on such systems this vulnerability is limited to those files modifiable by the cupsd process. In that specific case it was found to be possible to turn the configuration of the Listen argument into full control over the cupsd.conf and cups-files.conf configuration files. By later setting the User and Group arguments in cups-files.conf, and printing with a printer configured by PPD with a FoomaticRIPCommandLine argument, arbitrary user and group (not root) command execution could be achieved, which can further be used on Ubuntu systems to achieve full root command execution. Commit ff1f8a623e090dee8a8aadf12a6a4b25efac143d contains a patch for the issue.
References
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-4265.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-4776.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35235
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4265
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4776
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/11/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/12/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/12/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/08/3
- https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/tree/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/user-tmp#n21
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/blob/aba917003c8de55e5bf85010f0ecf1f1ddd1408e/cups/http-addr.c#L229-L240
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/ff1f8a623e090dee8a8aadf12a6a4b25efac143d
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-vvwp-mv6j-hw6f
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00001.html