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Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-47850: Medium priority package update for cups-filters

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 4, 2024
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.)
A flaw was found in cups-browsed. This vulnerability allows an attacker to launch DDoS amplification attacks via an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added.

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