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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : cups-filters vulnerability (USN-2210-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 73941

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2210-1 advisory.

 Sebastian Krahmer discovered that cups-browsed incorrectly filtered remote printer names and strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2014-2707)

 Johannes Meixner discovered that cups-browsed ignored invalid BrowseAllow directives. This could cause it to accept browse packets from all hosts, contrary to intended configuration.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2210-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 73941

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2210-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2014

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-2707

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfontembed-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsfilters-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfontembed1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-browsed, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-filters, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-filters-core-drivers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsfilters1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/8/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2707

BID: 66624

USN: 2210-1