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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-4504: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-4504: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/21/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
06/11/2024

Description

Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. This issue has been fixed in CUPS version 2.4.7, released in September of 2023.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-cups

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