Buffer overflow in cups-filters - CVE-2013-6473

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Buffer overflow in cups-filters - CVE-2013-6473

Published: March 14, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32561
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-2013-6473
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.

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the urftopdf filter in cups-filters 1.0.25 before 1.0.47 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large (1) page or (2) line in a URF file.


Affected software

cups-filters
Gentoo Linux
cups-filters (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-6473

Install update from vendor's website.

cups-filters - update to 1.0.47
cups-filters (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.41-r1

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