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USN-2532-1: cups-filters vulnerability

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USN-2532-1: cups-filters vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/16/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/18/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The remove_bad_chars function in utils/cups-browsed.c in cups-filters before 1.0.66 allows remote IPP printers to execute arbitrary commands via consecutive shell metacharacters in the (1) model or (2) PDL. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2707.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-cups-browsed

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