cups-filters vulnerabilities

12 March 2014

cups-filters vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

cups-filters could be made to run programs as the lp user if it processed a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• cups-filters - OpenPrinting CUPS Filters

Details

Florian Weimer discovered that cups-filters incorrectly handled memory in the urftopdf filter. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the lp user. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2013-6473)

Florian Weimer discovered that cups-filters incorrectly handled memory in the pdftoopvp filter. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the lp user. (CVE-2013-6474, CVE-2013-6475)

Florian Weimer discovered that cups-filters did not restrict driver directories in in the pdftoopvp filter. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the lp user. (CVE-2013-6476)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10

cups-filters - 1.0.40-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.10

cups-filters - 1.0.24-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

cups-filters - 1.0.18-0ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• CVE-2013-6473
• CVE-2013-6474
• CVE-2013-6475
• CVE-2013-6476