USN-2659-1

Petr Sklenar discovered that the cups-filters texttopdf filter incorrectly handled line sizes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code as the lp user. (CVE-2015-3258, CVE-2015-3279)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / cups-filters

Package

Name: cups-filters
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/cups-filters@1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.40-0ubuntu1

1.0.40-0ubuntu2

1.0.41-0ubuntu1

1.0.41-2

1.0.42-1

1.0.42-2

1.0.43-1

1.0.44-1

1.0.44-2

1.0.45-1

1.0.46-0ubuntu1

1.0.47-0ubuntu1

1.0.48-0ubuntu1

1.0.48-0ubuntu2

1.0.49-0ubuntu1

1.0.50-0ubuntu1

1.0.51-0ubuntu1

1.0.52-0ubuntu1

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.1

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.2

1.0.52-0ubuntu1.4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-browsed",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-filters",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cups-filters-core-drivers",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsfilters-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcupsfilters1",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libfontembed-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libfontembed1",
            "binary_version": "1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-3258"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-3279"
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2659-1.json"