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Critical USN-6204-1 1 CVE

cpdb-libs vulnerability

Published Jul 5, 2023 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Seth Arnold discovered that CPDB incorrectly handled certain characters.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute
arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS cpdb-libs 1.2.0-0ubuntu7.1
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS cpdb-libs 1.2.0-0ubuntu8.1.22.04.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2023-34095

    cpdb-libs vulnerable to buffer overflows via scanf

    cpdb-libs provides frontend and backend libraries for the Common Printing Dialog Backends (CPDB) project. In versions 1.0 through 2.0b4, cpdb-libs is vulnerable to buffer overflows via improper use of `scanf(3)`. cpdb-libs uses the `fscanf()` and `scanf()` fu…

    OpenPrinting cpdb-libs cpdb-libs cpdb-libs Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-34095