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CVE-2013-6474: Buffer Overflow

First published: Thu Nov 07 2013(Updated: )

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the pdftoopvp filter. If a malicious PDF file were processed, it could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the "lp" user. This issue was due to the following fix not being present in pdftoopvp: <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17326">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17326</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-August/004021.html">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-August/004021.html</a> Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters<=1.0.46
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.1
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.2
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.3
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.4
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.5
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.6
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.7
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.8
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.9
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.10
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.11
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.12
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.13
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.14
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.15
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.16
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.17
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.18
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.19
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.20
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.21
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.22
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.23
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.24
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.25
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.26
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.27
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.28
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.29
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.30
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.31
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.32
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.33
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.34
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.35
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.36
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.37
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.38
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.39
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.40
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.41
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.42
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.43
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.44
Linuxfoundation Cups-filters=1.0.45
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=10.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=12.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=12.10
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=13.10
Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
debian/cups
2.3.3op2-3+deb11u6
2.3.3op2-3+deb11u2
2.4.2-3+deb12u5
2.4.10-1
debian/cups-filters
1.28.7-1+deb11u2
1.28.17-3
1.28.17-4.1

Remedy

http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7176

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