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Medium ALAS2023-2023-361 1 CVE

Moderate: cups security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Sep 27, 2023 · Updated Oct 3, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-4504: A vulnerability was found in OpenPrinting CUPS. The security flaw occurs due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted CUPS document, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow and code execution.

Fixed packages 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-client 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-client-debuginfo 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-debuginfo 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-debugsource 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-devel 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-filesystem 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-ipptool 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-ipptool-debuginfo 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-libs 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-libs-debuginfo 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-lpd 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-lpd-debuginfo 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-printerapp 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-printerapp-debuginfo 1:2.3.3op2-18.amzn2023.0.7

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.0
    CVE-2023-4504 Public exploit

    OpenPrinting CUPS/libppd Postscript Parsing Heap Overflow

    Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. This issue has been fixed in CUPS version 2.4.7, released in Septembe…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4504.html