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Medium ALAS2-2024-2656 2 CVEs

Moderate: cups-filters security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 24, 2024 · Updated Oct 31, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-47850: CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.) CVE-2024-47176: CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and `cups-browsed` contains network printing functionality including, but not limited to, auto-discovering print services and shared printers. `cups-browsed` binds to `INADDR_ANY:631`, causing it to trust any packet from any source, and can cause the `Get-Printer-Attributes` IPP request to an attacker controlled URL. Due to the service binding to `*:631 ( INADDR_ANY )`, multiple bugs in `cups-browsed` can be exploited in sequence to introduce a malicious printer to the system. This chain of exploits ultimately enables an attacker to execute arbitrary commands remotely on the target machine without authentication when a print job is started. This poses a significant security risk over the network. Notably, this vulnerability is particularly concerning as it can be exploited from the public internet, potentially exposing a vast number of systems to remote attacks if their CUPS services are enabled.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 cups-filters 0:1.0.35-26.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 cups-filters-debuginfo 0:1.0.35-26.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 cups-filters-devel 0:1.0.35-26.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 cups-filters-libs 0:1.0.35-26.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-47176.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-47850.html