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CVE-2015-8327

Published: 2 December 2015

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.2.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via ` (backtick) characters in a print job.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
Per Debian, introduced in cups-filters 1.0.42 and foomatic-filters
4.0-20090301

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
cups-filters
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Not vulnerable
(1.0.18-0ubuntu0.4)
trusty
Released (1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6)
upstream
Released (1.2.0-1)
vivid
Released (1.0.67-0ubuntu2.5)
wily
Released (1.0.76-1ubuntu0.1)
xenial Not vulnerable
(1.2.0-1)
Patches:
upstream: http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7406
foomatic-filters
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (4.0.16-0ubuntu0.3)
trusty
Released (4.0.17-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1)
upstream Needed

vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Not vulnerable
(4.0.17-7)