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High USN-7044-1 1 CVE

libcupsfilters vulnerability

Published Sep 26, 2024 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Simone Margaritelli discovered that libcupsfilters incorrectly sanitized
IPP data when creating PPD files. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to manipulate PPD files and execute arbitrary code when a printer is
used.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS libcupsfilters 2.0.0-0ubuntu7.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.6
    CVE-2024-47076 Public exploit EPSS 80%

    libcupsfilters's cfGetPrinterAttributes5 does not validate IPP attributes returned from an IPP server

    CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and `libcupsfilters` contains the code of the filters of the former `cups-filters` package as library functions to be used for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. The `cfGetP…

    OpenPrinting libcupsfilters cups-filters cups-filters Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-47076