CVE-2014-9679

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-9679
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-02-19 15:59:11 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionInteger underflow in the cupsRasterReadPixels function in filter/raster.c in CUPS before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a malformed compressed raster file, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apple Cups All All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 20 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: cups-1.7.5-15.fc21 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3172-1 cups af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CUPS cupsRasterReadPixels() Buffer Overflow Has Unspecified Impact - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
USN-2520-1: CUPS vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:108 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2015-0067 - Updated cups packages fix CVE-2014-9679 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2015:0381-1: moderate: Security update for cups af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
CUPS: Buffer overflow (GLSA 201607-06) — Gentoo security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
CUPS cupsRasterReadPixels Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oss-security - Re: CVE Request: Cups: cupsRasterReadPixels buffer overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE Request: Cups: cupsRasterReadPixels buffer overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: cups-1.7.5-12.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:049 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
Buffer overflow in cupsRasterReadPixels · Issue #4551 · apple/cups · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cups.org Vendor Advisory
Oracle Solaris Bulletin - April 2016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
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