Headline
CVE-2015-3258: USN-2659-1: cups-filters vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu
A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way the texttopdf utility of cups-filter processed print jobs with a specially crafted line size. An attacker able to submit print jobs could use this flaw to crash texttopdf or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the “lp” user.
6 July 2015
cups-filters could be made to crash or run programs as the lp user if it processed a specially crafted print job.
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