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A flaw was found in libcupsfilters and cups-filters. The PNG image reading function creates a libpng reader without installing an error recovery handler, causing the CUPS image filter process to abort when processing a malformed PNG file. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this by submitting a specially crafted PNG print job, leading to denial of service of the in-flight print job.

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Source: MITRE
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beh backend: Use execv() instead of system() - CVE-2023-24805

If you use "beh" to create an accessible network printer, this security vulnerability can cause remote code execution. https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/security/advisories/GHSA-gpxc-v2m8-fr3x

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Buffer Overflow

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way the texttopdf utility of cups-filters processed print jobs with a specially crafted line size. An attacker being able to submit print jobs could exploit this flaw to crash texttopdf or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the 'lp' user.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Petr Sklenar of Red Hat.

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Hello,

On Thu, Oct 3, 2024, at 19:54, Larry Cashdollar wrote: I've requested a CVE ID to be able to discern between the RCE and the DoS vulnerability. I reported this as https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/security/advisories/GHSA-rq86-c7g6-r2h8 last week, and in the edits at the top (by upstream, above the Summary heading) it looks like they did not want (or did not consider) to request a separate CVE for this. Please do coordinate with them if you decide to go ahead with this request.

(I did notice, and can see value in, Will Dormann's suggestion in the other thread that it might make sense to have more fine-grained CVEs for this collection of problems.)

-- Peter van Dijk peter () 7bits nl

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Hello oss-security,

Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 2:58 PM -04:00 from peter () 7bits nl <peter () 7bits nl>: Hello,

On Thu, Oct 3, 2024, at 19:54, Larry Cashdollar wrote: I've requested a CVE ID to be able to discern between the RCE and the DoS vulnerability. I reported this as https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/security/advisories/GHSA-rq86-c7g6-r2h8 last week, and in the edits at the top (by upstream, above the Summary heading) it looks like they did not want (or did not consider) to request a separate CVE for this. Please do coordinate with them if you decide to go ahead with this request.

(I did notice, and can see value in, Will Dormann's suggestion in the other thread that it might make sense to have more fine-grained CVEs for this collection of problems.)

--   Peter van Dijk    peter () 7bits nl This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2024-47850.

Thanks, Larry C$

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