Executive Summary

Summary
Title cups-filters vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2725-1 First vendor Publication 2015-08-27
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-08-27
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 15.04

Summary:

cups-filters would allow unintended access to printers over the network.

Software Description: - cups-filters: OpenPrinting CUPS Filters

Details:

Seth Arnold discovered that ippusbxd in the cups-filters package would incorrectly listen to all configured network interfaces. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly access locally-connected printers.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
cups-filters-ippusbxd 1.0.67-0ubuntu2.4

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2725-1
CVE-2015-6520

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/1.0.67-0ubuntu2.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2725-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-08-28 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2725-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2015-09-02 21:34:20
  • Multiple Updates
2015-09-01 21:29:08
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-29 13:33:56
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-27 21:26:54
  • First insertion