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Medium USN-6184-1 1 CVE

cups vulnerability

Published Jun 22, 2023 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain memory operations.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause CUPS to crash, resulting
in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS cups 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.4
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS cups 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.4

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2023-34241

    CUPS vulnerable to use-after-free in cupsdAcceptClient()

    OpenPrinting CUPS is a standards-based, open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Starting in version 2.0.0 and prior to version 2.4.6, CUPS logs data of free memory to the logging service AFTER the connection has been close…

    OpenPrinting cups cups cups Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-34241