cups-browsed: cups-browsed binds on UDP INADDR_ANY:631 trusting any packet from any source

A security issue has been identified in OpenPrinting CUPS. The function ppdCreatePPDFromIPP2 in the libppd library is responsible for generating a PostScript Printer Description PPD file based on attributes retrieved from an Internet Printing Protocol IPP response. Essentially, it takes printer...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: cups-filters security update

An update for cups-filters is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availabl...

cups-browsed: cups-filters: cups-browsed vulnerable to DDoS amplification attack

A flaw was found in cups-browsed. This vulnerability allows an attacker to launch DDoS amplification attacks via an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added...

Decade-Old Linux Vulnerability Can Be Exploited for DDoS Attacks on CUPS

This article explores the Linux vulnerability discovered by Simone Margaritelli, which, according to cybersecurity companies Uptycs and Akamai,…...

cups-browsed: cups-filters: cups-browsed vulnerable to DDoS amplification attack

A flaw was found in cups-browsed. This vulnerability allows an attacker to launch DDoS amplification attacks via an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added...

cups-filters: libcupsfilters: `cfGetPrinterAttributes` API does not perform sanitization on returned IPP attributes

A flaw was found in OpenPrinting CUPS. In certain conditions, a remote attacker can add a malicious printer or directly hijack an existing printer by replacing the valid IPP URL with a malicious one. Also, it is possible that due to a lack of validation of IPP attributes returned by the server,...

cups: libppd: remote command injection via attacker controlled data in PPD file

A security vulnerability was found in OpenPrinting CUPS. The function ppdCreatePPDFromIPP2 in the libppd library is responsible for generating a PostScript Printer Description PPD file based on attributes retrieved from an Internet Printing Protocol IPP response. Essentially, it takes printer...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: cups-filters security update

An update for cups-filters is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availabl...

cups-browsed: cups-browsed binds on UDP INADDR_ANY:631 trusting any packet from any source

A security issue has been identified in OpenPrinting CUPS. The function ppdCreatePPDFromIPP2 in the libppd library is responsible for generating a PostScript Printer Description PPD file based on attributes retrieved from an Internet Printing Protocol IPP response. Essentially, it takes printer...

cups-browsed: cups-filters: cups-browsed vulnerable to DDoS amplification attack

A flaw was found in cups-browsed. This vulnerability allows an attacker to launch DDoS amplification attacks via an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added...

cups-filters: libcupsfilters: `cfGetPrinterAttributes` API does not perform sanitization on returned IPP attributes

A flaw was found in OpenPrinting CUPS. In certain conditions, a remote attacker can add a malicious printer or directly hijack an existing printer by replacing the valid IPP URL with a malicious one. Also, it is possible that due to a lack of validation of IPP attributes returned by the server,...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: cups-filters security update

An update for cups-filters is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update...

cups-browsed: cups-browsed binds on UDP INADDR_ANY:631 trusting any packet from any source

A security issue has been identified in OpenPrinting CUPS. The function ppdCreatePPDFromIPP2 in the libppd library is responsible for generating a PostScript Printer Description PPD file based on attributes retrieved from an Internet Printing Protocol IPP response. Essentially, it takes printer...

cups-filters: libcupsfilters: `cfGetPrinterAttributes` API does not perform sanitization on returned IPP attributes

A flaw was found in OpenPrinting CUPS. In certain conditions, a remote attacker can add a malicious printer or directly hijack an existing printer by replacing the valid IPP URL with a malicious one. Also, it is possible that due to a lack of validation of IPP attributes returned by the server,...

cups: libppd: remote command injection via attacker controlled data in PPD file

A security vulnerability was found in OpenPrinting CUPS. The function ppdCreatePPDFromIPP2 in the libppd library is responsible for generating a PostScript Printer Description PPD file based on attributes retrieved from an Internet Printing Protocol IPP response. Essentially, it takes printer...

cups-browsed: cups-filters: cups-browsed vulnerable to DDoS amplification attack

A flaw was found in cups-browsed. This vulnerability allows an attacker to launch DDoS amplification attacks via an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: cups-filters security update

An update for cups-filters is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, i...

Vulnerabilities discovered in CUPS

Recently, a researcher discovered a number of vulnerabilities in CUPS that could lead to Remote Code Execution. These have been disclosed as "9.9 RCE affecting all GNU/Unix systems." Through a concatenation of the four vulnerabilities, a malicious person can execute arbitrary code within the...

RHEL 9 : cups-filters (RHSA-2024:7503)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:7503 advisory. The cups-filters package contains back ends, filters, and other software that was once part of the core Common UNIX Printing System CUPS...

Oracle Linux 8 : cups-filters (ELSA-2024-7463)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-7463 advisory. - CVE-2024-47175 cups-filters: remote command injection via attacker controlled data in PPD file - CVE-2024-47076 cups-filters: cfGetPrinterAttributes...