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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : cups-filters vulnerabilities (USN-2143-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72978

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Florian Weimer discovered that cups-filters incorrectly handled memory in the urftopdf filter. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the lp user. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2013-6473)

Florian Weimer discovered that cups-filters incorrectly handled memory in the pdftoopvp filter. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the lp user.
(CVE-2013-6474, CVE-2013-6475)

Florian Weimer discovered that cups-filters did not restrict driver directories in in the pdftoopvp filter. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the lp user. (CVE-2013-6476).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected cups-filters package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2143-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72978

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2143-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-filters, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6473, CVE-2013-6474, CVE-2013-6475, CVE-2013-6476

BID: 66161

USN: 2143-1