Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: cups-filters security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated cups-filters packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give...

MGASA-2015-0270 Updated cups-filters package fixes security vulnerability

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way the texttopdf utility of cups-filters processed print jobs with a specially crafted line size. An attacker being able to submit print jobs could exploit this flaw to crash texttopdf or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

cups-filters -- texttopdf integer overflow

Stefan Cornelius from Red Hat reports: An integer overflow flaw leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way the texttopdf utility of cups-filter processed print jobs with a specially crafted line size. An attacker being able to submit print jobs could exploit this flaw to...