Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3172-1 cups -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 25 Feb 2015
- Affected Packages:
- cups
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 778387.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9679. - More information:
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Peter De Wachter discovered that CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, did not correctly parse compressed raster files. By submitting a specially crafted raster file, a remote attacker could use this vulnerability to trigger a buffer overflow.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.5-11.
We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.