Numeric Errors Affecting cups package, versions <1.5.0-16
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
5.89% (94th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-CUPS-364770
- published 14 Jul 2015
- disclosed 14 Jul 2015
Introduced: 14 Jul 2015
CVE-2015-3279 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
cups
to version 1.5.0-16 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cups
package and not the cups
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
Integer overflow in filter/texttopdf.c in texttopdf in cups-filters before 1.0.71 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted line size in a print job, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3279
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3303
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-08
- http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7365
- http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7366#NEWS
- http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7369
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2659-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00033.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/03/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/03/5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238990
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2360.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75557
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-3279