Executive Summary

Summary
Title CUPS vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2520-1 First vendor Publication 2015-02-26
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-02-26
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

CUPS could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - cups: Common UNIX Printing System(tm)

Details:

Peter De Wachter discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain malformed compressed raster files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
cups 1.7.5-3ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
cups 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.5

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
cups 1.5.3-0ubuntu8.6

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.14

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2520-1
CVE-2014-9679

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/1.7.5-3ubuntu3.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/1.7.2-0ubuntu1.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/1.5.3-0ubuntu8.6
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/1.4.3-1ubuntu1.14

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2520-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 121

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-07-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201607-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-08 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-559.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-19 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-1123.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1123.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0071.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-1123.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20150617_cups_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-108.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-159.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_cups-150302.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-19 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-049.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-27 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-182.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-27 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2520-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3172.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-2127.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-2152.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-02-28 13:24:19
  • Multiple Updates
2015-02-26 21:22:55
  • First insertion