cups vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-2228   CVE-2020-3898  

Several security issues were fixed in CUPS.

It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain language values. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-2228)

27 April 2020

cups vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 19.10
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in CUPS.

Software Description

  • cups - Common UNIX Printing System™

Details

It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain language values. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-2228)

Stephan Zeisberg discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain malformed ppd files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-3898)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
cups - 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 19.10
cups - 2.2.12-2ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
cups - 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.8
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
cups - 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.11

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