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Low · 3.7 CVE-2025-57812 EUVD-2025-150402

[BIGSLEEP-434612419] CUPS-Filters has heap-buffer-overflow write in `cfImageLut()`

Published Nov 12, 2025 · Updated Nov 12, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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. In CUPS-Filters versions up to and including 1.28.17 and libscupsfilters versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.1, CUPS-Filters's `imagetoraster` filter has an out of bounds read/write vulnerability in the processing of TIFF image files. While the pixel buffer is allocated with the number of pixels times a pre-calculated bytes-per-pixel value, the function which processes these pixels is called with a size of the number of pixels times 3. When suitable inputs are passed, the bytes-per-pixel value can be set to 1 and bytes outside of the buffer bounds get processed. In order to trigger the bug, an attacker must issue a print job with a crafted TIFF file, and pass appropriate print job options to control the bytes-per-pixel value of the output format. They must choose a printer configuration under which the `imagetoraster` filter or its C-function equivalent `cfFilterImageToRaster()` gets invoked. The vulnerability exists in both CUPS-Filters 1.x and the successor library libcupsfilters (CUPS-Filters 2.x). In CUPS-Filters 2.x, the vulnerable function is `_cfImageReadTIFF() in libcupsfilters`. When this function is invoked as part of `cfFilterImageToRaster()`, the caller passes a look-up-table during whose processing the out of bounds memory access happens. In CUPS-Filters 1.x, the equivalent functions are all found in the cups-filters repository, which is not split into subprojects yet, and the vulnerable code is in `_cupsImageReadTIFF()`, which is called through `cupsImageOpen()` from the `imagetoraster` tool. A patch is available in commit b69dfacec7f176281782e2f7ac44f04bf9633cfa.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenPrinting libcupsfilters cups-filters <= 1.28.17, libcupsfilters >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 cups-filters 1.28.17-7 —
Debian 14 libcupsfilters 2.1.1-2 —
Debian 13 cups-filters 1.28.17-6+deb13u1 —
Debian 13 libcupsfilters 2.0.0-3+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 cups-filters 1.28.17-3+deb12u2 —
Debian 11 cups-filters 1.28.7-1+deb11u4 DLA-4380-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 cups-filters 2.0.1-0ubuntu3.25.10.1 USN-7878-1
Ubuntu 25.10 libcupsfilters 2.1.1-0ubuntu3.1 USN-7877-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cups-filters 2.0.0-0ubuntu4.1 USN-7878-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libcupsfilters 2.0.0-0ubuntu7.2 USN-7877-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS cups-filters 1.28.15-0ubuntu1.5 USN-7878-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS cups-filters 1.27.4-1ubuntu0.4+esm1 USN-7878-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS cups-filters 1.20.2-0ubuntu3.3+esm2 USN-7878-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS cups-filters 1.8.3-2ubuntu3.5+esm3 USN-7878-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 cups +7 2.4.17-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:8814
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 cups-filters 1.25.0-150200.3.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4158-1
SLES 15 SP6 cups-filters 1.25.0-150200.3.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4158-1
SLES 12 SP5 cups-filters 1.0.58-19.35.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4198-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.6 cups-filters 1.25.0-150200.3.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4158-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 cups-filters +2 1.28.16-3.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2025-1291
Amazon Linux 2 cups-filters +2 1.0.35-26.amzn2.0.2 ALAS2-2025-3082

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