A flaw was found in the way the CUPS daemon added shared printers announced through the network. A malicious host or user could send a specially crafted UDP packet to a CUPS server that, when processed, could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the CUPS daemon.
Find out more about CVE-2014-8166 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | cups | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | cups | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | cups | Will not fix |
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