CVE-2015-2265

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-02-26
CWE:
CWE-78
Bugzilla:
1199130: CVE-2015-2265 cups-filters: remote command execution in remove_bad_chars() (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2707)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The remove_bad_chars function in utils/cups-browsed.c in cups-filters before 1.0.66 allows remote IPP printers to execute arbitrary commands via consecutive shell metacharacters in the (1) model or (2) PDL. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2707.

Find out more about CVE-2015-2265 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of cups-filters as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5.8
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cups-filters Not affected

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