USN-2210-1

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    USN-2210-1

    Published: 8 May 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: cups-filters vulnerability

    Details: Sebastian Krahmer discovered that cups-browsed incorrectly filtered remote printer names and strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2014-2707) Johannes Meixner discovered that cups-browsed ignored invalid BrowseAllow directives. This could cause it to accept browse packets from all hosts, contrary to intended configuration.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2210-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2707

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cups-filters

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.0.52-0ubuntu1.1

    Affected versions

    1.0.40-0ubuntu1
    1.0.40-0ubuntu2
    1.0.41-0ubuntu1
    1.0.41-2
    1.0.42-1
    1.0.42-2
    1.0.43-1
    1.0.44-1
    1.0.44-2
    1.0.45-1
    1.0.46-0ubuntu1
    1.0.47-0ubuntu1
    1.0.48-0ubuntu1
    1.0.48-0ubuntu2
    1.0.49-0ubuntu1
    1.0.50-0ubuntu1
    1.0.51-0ubuntu1
    1.0.52-0ubuntu1

    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