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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-47175): CUPS vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-47175): CUPS vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
09/26/2024
Created
09/28/2024
Added
09/27/2024
Modified
09/27/2024

Description

Simone Margaritelli discovered that CUPS incorrectly sanitized IPP data when creating PPD files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to manipulate PPD files and execute arbitrary code when a printer is used.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-cups
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libppd-utils
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libppd2

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