vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2023-4504: cups -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 21, 2023
Added
Oct 2, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-cups
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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