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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : cups-filters vulnerabilities (USN-7043-4)

high Nessus Plugin ID 208473

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7043-4 advisory.

 USN-7043-1 fixed vulnerabilities in cups-filters. This update improves the fix for CVE-2024-47176 by removing support for the legacy CUPS printer discovery protocol entirely.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7043-4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 208473

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7043-4.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2024

Updated: 11/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47076

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-filters-core-drivers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsfilters1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfontembed-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsfilters-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfontembed1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-browsed, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-filters

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (CUPS IPP Attributes LAN Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47176

USN: 7043-4