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Unscored USN-2210-1 1 CVE

cups-filters vulnerability

Published May 8, 2014 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that cups-browsed incorrectly filtered remote
printer names and strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to
possibly execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2014-2707)

Johannes Meixner discovered that cups-browsed ignored invalid BrowseAllow
directives. This could cause it to accept browse packets from all hosts,
contrary to intended configuration.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS cups-filters 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2707