USN-2838-1

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    USN-2838-1

    Published: 16 Dec 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: cups-filters vulnerability

    Details: Adam Chester discovered that the cups-filters foomatic-rip filter incorrectly stripped shell escape characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the lp user.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2838-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8560

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cups-filters

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7

    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
    1.0.52-0ubuntu1.1
    1.0.52-0ubuntu1.2
    1.0.52-0ubuntu1.4
    1.0.52-0ubuntu1.5
    1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6

    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
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