USN-2838-1

Adam Chester 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@1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7

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

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-browsed",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-filters",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-filters-core-drivers",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsfilters-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsfilters1",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libfontembed-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libfontembed1",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-8560"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}