MGASA-2023-0284

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    MGASA-2023-0284

    Published: 10 Oct 2023Last Modified: 30 May 2026

    Summary: Updated cups packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly authenticated certain remote requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain recently printed documents. (CVE-2023-32360) Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. (CVE-2023-4504)

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0284.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32281, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32360, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6361-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4504, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6391-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cups

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/cups?arch=source&distro=mageia-8

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.3.3op2-1.5.mga8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    MGASA-2023-0284 | CVE-DB