Advisories » MGASA-2015-0476

Updated cups-filters packages fix CVE-2015-8560

Publication date: 16 Dec 2015
Modification date: 17 Dec 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2015-8560

Description

Updated cups-filters package fixes security vulnerability:

Adam Chester discovered that missing input sanitising in the foomatic-rip
print filter might result in the execution of arbitrary commands
(CVE-2015-8560).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17330
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/13
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8560

SRPMS

5/core

• cups-filters-1.0.71-1.2.mga5