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Medium ALAS2023-2025-1320 2 CVEs

Moderate: cups security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jan 7, 2026 · Updated Jan 7, 2026

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-61915: A user in the lpadmin group can use the cups web ui to change the config and insert a malicious line. Then the cupsd process which runs as root will parse the new config and cause an out-of-bound write. CVE-2025-58436: A client that connects to cupsd but sends slow messages, e.g. only one byte per second, delays cupsd as a whole, such that it becomes unusable by other clients.

Fixed packages 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-client 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-client-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-debugsource 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-devel 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-filesystem 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-ipptool 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-ipptool-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-libs 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-libs-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-lpd 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-lpd-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-printerapp 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cups-printerapp-debuginfo 1:2.4.14-1.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 6.0
    CVE-2025-61915

    OpenPrinting CUPS vulnerable to stack based out-of-bound write

    OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Prior to version 2.4.15, a user in the lpadmin group can use the cups web ui to change the config and insert a malicious line. Then the cupsd process which ru…

    OpenPrinting cups cups cups Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  • Medium 5.1
    CVE-2025-58436

    OpenPrinting CUPS slow client can halt cupsd, leading to a possible DoS attack

    OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Prior to version 2.4.15, a client that connects to cupsd but sends slow messages, e.g. only one byte per second, delays cupsd as a whole, such that it becomes…

    OpenPrinting cups cups cups Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-58436.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-61915.html