Summary
Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the pdftoopvp CUPS filter, which could result in the execution of aribitrary code if a malformed PDF file is processed.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.47-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your cups-filters packages.
Insight
This package provides additional CUPS filters which are not provided by the CUPS project itself. This includes filters for a PDF based printing workflow.
Affected
cups-filters on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-6474, CVE-2013-6475, CVE-2013-6476 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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