DSA-2875-1 cups-filters -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2875-1 cups-filters -- security update

Date Reported:

12 Mar 2014

Affected Packages:

cups-filters

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-6474, CVE-2013-6475, CVE-2013-6476.

More information:

Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the pdftoopvp CUPS filter, which could result in the execution of aribitrary code if a malformed PDF file is processed.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.47-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cups-filters packages.