CVE-2023-4504

Publication date 20 September 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

0.0 · Low

Score breakdown

Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. This issue has been fixed in CUPS version 2.4.7, released in September of 2023.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cups 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.4.6-0ubuntu2
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.4.6-0ubuntu2
23.10 mantic
Fixed 2.4.6-0ubuntu2
23.04 lunar
Fixed 2.4.2-3ubuntu2.5
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.7
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.6
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
libppd 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2:2.0~rc1-0ubuntu4
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2:2.0~rc1-0ubuntu4
23.10 mantic
Fixed 2:2.0~rc1-0ubuntu4
23.04 lunar
Fixed 2:2.0~rc1-0ubuntu1.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 0.0 · Low
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N

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