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Unscored USN-2838-1 1 CVE

cups-filters vulnerability

Published Dec 16, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Adam Chester discovered that the cups-filters foomatic-rip filter
incorrectly stripped shell escape characters. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the lp user.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS cups-filters 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8560