RHSA-2024:7504 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for cups-filters is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The cups-filters package contains back ends, filters, and other software that was once part of the core Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) distribution but is now maintained independently.

Security Fix(es):

• cups-browsed: cups-browsed binds on UDP INADDR_ANY:631 trusting any packet from any source ()
• cups-filters: libcupsfilters: `cfGetPrinterAttributes` API does not perform sanitization on returned IPP attributes (CVE-2024-47076)
• cups: libppd: remote command injection via attacker controlled data in PPD file ()

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2314252 - CVE-2024-47176 cups-browsed: cups-browsed binds on UDP INADDR_ANY:631 trusting any packet from any source
• BZ - 2314253 - CVE-2024-47076 cups-filters: libcupsfilters: `cfGetPrinterAttributes` API does not perform sanitization on returned IPP attributes
• BZ - 2314256 - cups: libppd: remote command injection via attacker controlled data in PPD file

CVEs

• CVE-2024-47076
• CVE-2024-47175
• CVE-2024-47176
• CVE-2024-47850

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important