Buffer overflow in CUPS - CVE-2014-9679
Published: February 19, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32436
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9679
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Integer underflow in the cupsRasterReadPixels function in filter/raster.c in CUPS before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a malformed compressed raster file, which triggers a buffer overflow.
Affected software
CUPS
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
cups (Alpine package)
cups
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
cups (Alpine package)
cups
How to mitigate CVE-2014-9679
Install update from vendor's website.
CUPS - update to 2.0.2
cups (Alpine package) - update to 1.6.2-r4
cups - update to 1.7.5-15.fc21
cups (Alpine package) - update to 1.6.2-r4
cups - update to 1.7.5-15.fc21
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0067.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150171.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150177.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00098.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1123.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3172
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:049
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:108
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/10/15
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/12/12
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72594
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031776
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2520-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-06
- https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4551