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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-4504: CUPS: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-4504: CUPS: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/21/2023
Created
02/20/2024
Added
02/19/2024
Modified
02/19/2024

Description

Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. This issue has been fixed in CUPS version 2.4.7, released in September of 2023.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-print-cups

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