USN-2831-1

Michal Kowalczyk discovered that the cups-filters foomatic-rip filter incorrectly stripped shell escape characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the lp user.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / cups-filters

Package

Name: cups-filters
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/cups-filters@1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.40-0ubuntu1

1.0.40-0ubuntu2

1.0.41-0ubuntu1

1.0.41-2

1.0.42-1

1.0.42-2

1.0.43-1

1.0.44-1

1.0.44-2

1.0.45-1

1.0.46-0ubuntu1

1.0.47-0ubuntu1

1.0.48-0ubuntu1

1.0.48-0ubuntu2

1.0.49-0ubuntu1

1.0.50-0ubuntu1

1.0.51-0ubuntu1

1.0.52-0ubuntu1

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.1

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.2

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.4

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6",
            "binary_name": "cups-browsed"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6",
            "binary_name": "cups-filters"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6",
            "binary_name": "cups-filters-core-drivers"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6",
            "binary_name": "libcupsfilters-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6",
            "binary_name": "libcupsfilters1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6",
            "binary_name": "libfontembed-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6",
            "binary_name": "libfontembed1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-8327"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}