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Numeric Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cups  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-CUPS-669042
  • published30 Mar 2015
  • disclosed30 Mar 2015
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Introduced: 30 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-2305  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cups package and not the cups package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Integer overflow in the regcomp implementation in the Henry Spencer BSD regex library (aka rxspencer) alpha3.8.g5 on 32-bit platforms, as used in NetBSD through 6.1.5 and other products, might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large regular expression that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

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