Executive Summary

Summary
Title cups-filters vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2532-1 First vendor Publication 2015-03-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-03-16
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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 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

Summary:

cups-filters could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - cups-filters: OpenPrinting CUPS Filters

Details:

It was discovered that cups-browsed incorrectly filtered remote printer names and strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary commands.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
cups-browsed 1.0.61-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
cups-browsed 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.4

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2532-1
CVE-2015-2265

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/1.0.61-0ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/1.0.52-0ubuntu1.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2532-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-77 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:29251
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:29251
Title: SUSE-SU-2015:0805-1 -- Security update for cups-filters (moderate)
Description: cups-filters was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2015-2265: Remote command execution in remove_bad_chars() (bnc#921753). This non-security issue was fixed: - LSB compliance of foomatic-rip (bnc#915545).
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2015:0805-1
CVE-2015-2265
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
Product(s): cups-filters
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 67
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-07-15 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-492.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-0805-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-08 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-196.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-2949.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-3003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-3036.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2532-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2015-03-25 21:32:09
  • Multiple Updates
2015-03-24 21:30:50
  • Multiple Updates
2015-03-18 13:27:41
  • Multiple Updates
2015-03-16 17:24:54
  • First insertion