cups-filters: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

cups-filters is an OpenPrinting CUPS Filters.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cups-filters. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for more details about the vulnerabilities.

Impact

A remote attacker(s) could possibly execute arbitrary code utilizing multiple attack vectors, or a local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted shared library.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All cups-filters users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.53"