USN-6391-1: CUPS vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 23.04
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Packages

• cups - Common UNIX Printing System(tm)

Details

It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly parsed certain Postscript objects.
If a user or automated system were tricked into printing a specially
crafted document, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause CUPS to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.04

• cups - 2.4.2-3ubuntu2.5

Ubuntu 22.04

• cups - 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.7

Ubuntu 20.04

• cups - 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2023-4504

Related notices

• USN-6392-1: libppd-dev, ppdc, libppd2, libppd-tests, libppd2-common, libppd-utils, libppd
• USN-6391-2: cups-common, libcups2, cups-bsd, libcupsppdc1, cups-core-drivers, cups, cups-server-common, libcupsmime1-dev, cups-client, cups-daemon, libcupsppdc1-dev, libcupsimage2, libcupscgi1, libcupscgi1-dev, cups-ipp-utils, cups-ppdc, libcupsmime1, libcups2-dev, libcupsimage2-dev