USN-3713-1

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    USN-3713-1

    Published: 11 Jul 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: cups vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain print jobs with invalid usernames. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-18248) Dan Bastone discovered that the CUPS dnssd backend incorrectly handled certain environment variables. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. (CVE-2018-4180) Eric Rafaloff and John Dunlap discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain include directives. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. (CVE-2018-4181) Dan Bastone discovered that the CUPS AppArmor profile incorrectly confined the dnssd backend. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escape confinement. (CVE-2018-6553)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3713-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18248, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-4180, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-4181, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6553

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cups

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7.2-0ubuntu1.10

    Affected versions

    1.7.0~rc1-0ubuntu5
    1.7.0-0ubuntu2
    1.7.0-0ubuntu3
    1.7.0-1
    1.7.0-2
    1.7.1-1
    1.7.1-2
    1.7.1-2git1
    1.7.1-3
    1.7.1-4
    1.7.1-4ubuntu1
    1.7.1-5ubuntu1
    1.7.1-5ubuntu3
    1.7.1-5ubuntu4
    1.7.1-5ubuntu5
    1.7.1-5ubuntu6
    1.7.1-5ubuntu7
    1.7.1-5ubuntu8
    1.7.1-5ubuntu9
    1.7.1-5ubuntu10
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.4
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.5
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.6
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.7
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.8
    1.7.2-0ubuntu1.9

    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