CVE-2023-4504

Summary

CVECVE-2023-4504
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-21 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-09 20:58:00 UTC
DescriptionDue 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 38 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 39 All All All
Application Openprinting Cups All All All All
Application Openprinting Libppd 2.0 rc2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: libppd-2.0~rc2-4.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
CUPS Heap-based buffer overflow · Advisory · OpenPrinting/cups · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: cups-2.4.7-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: cups-2.4.7-1.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
CUPS Heap-based buffer overflow · Advisory · OpenPrinting/libppd · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: cups-2.4.7-1.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3594-1] cups security update MISC lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: libppd-2.0~rc2-4.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
Release v2.4.7 · OpenPrinting/cups · GitHub MISC github.com
cve-template • Austin Hackers Academy MISC takeonme.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199773 Ubuntu Security Notification for libppd Vulnerability (USN-6392-1)
  • 199774 Ubuntu Security Notification for CUPS Vulnerability (USN-6391-1)
  • 199776 Ubuntu Security Notification for CUPS Vulnerability (USN-6391-2)
  • 284543 Fedora Security Update for cups (FEDORA-2023-96519dc6fd)
  • 284544 Fedora Security Update for libppd (FEDORA-2023-00484b4120)
  • 284591 Fedora Security Update for cups (FEDORA-2023-904f92af98)
  • 285246 Fedora Security Update for cups (FEDORA-2023-351208aa08)
  • 285249 Fedora Security Update for libppd (FEDORA-2023-52aa3d1a4f)
  • 356383 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for cups : ALAS2023-2023-361
  • 356433 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for cups : ALAS2-2023-2293
  • 356451 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for cups : ALAS-2023-1857
  • 356986 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for cups : AL2012-2023-470
  • 503324 Alpine Linux Security Update for cups
  • 505860 Alpine Linux Security Update for cups
  • 6000163 Debian Security Update for cups (DLA 3594-1)
  • 673342 EulerOS Security Update for cups (EulerOS-SA-2023-3238)
  • 673361 EulerOS Security Update for cups (EulerOS-SA-2024-1135)
  • 673427 EulerOS Security Update for cups (EulerOS-SA-2023-3325)
  • 673439 EulerOS Security Update for cups (EulerOS-SA-2023-3293)
  • 673641 EulerOS Security Update for cups (EulerOS-SA-2023-3266)
  • 673679 EulerOS Security Update for cups (EulerOS-SA-2023-3168)
  • 673878 EulerOS Security Update for cups (EulerOS-SA-2023-3203)
  • 674015 EulerOS Security Update for cups (EulerOS-SA-2024-1259)
  • 710864 Gentoo Linux CUPS Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202402-17)
  • 754891 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for cups (SUSE-SU-2023:3707-1)
  • 754892 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for cups (SUSE-SU-2023:3706-1)
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