USN-2293-1

Francisco Alonso discovered that the CUPS web interface incorrectly validated permissions on rss files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass file permissions and read arbitrary files, possibly leading to a privilege escalation.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / cups

Package

Name: cups
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/cups@1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.7.0~rc1-0ubuntu5

1.7.0-0ubuntu2

1.7.0-0ubuntu3

1.7.0-1

1.7.0-2

1.7.1-1

1.7.1-2

1.7.1-2git1

1.7.1-3

1.7.1-4

1.7.1-4ubuntu1

1.7.1-5ubuntu1

1.7.1-5ubuntu3

1.7.1-5ubuntu4

1.7.1-5ubuntu5

1.7.1-5ubuntu6

1.7.1-5ubuntu7

1.7.1-5ubuntu8

1.7.1-5ubuntu9

1.7.1-5ubuntu10

1.7.2-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "cups",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-bsd",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-client",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-common",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-core-drivers",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-daemon",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-dbg",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-ppdc",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-server-common",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcups2",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcups2-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupscgi1",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupscgi1-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsimage2",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsimage2-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsmime1",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsmime1-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsppdc1",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsppdc1-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}