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USN-2659-1: cups-filters vulnerabilities

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USN-2659-1: cups-filters vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/06/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/08/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Integer overflow in filter/texttopdf.c in texttopdf in cups-filters before 1.0.71 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted line size in a print job, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-cups-filters

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