USN-7042-1: cups-browsed vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Packages

• cups-browsed - OpenPrinting cups-browsed

Details

Simone Margaritelli discovered that cups-browsed could be used to create
arbitrary printers from outside the local network. In combination with
issues in other printing components, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to connect to a system, created manipulated PPD files, and
execute arbitrary code when a printer is used. This update disables support
for the legacy CUPS printer discovery protocol.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04

• cups-browsed - 2.0.0-0ubuntu10.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2024-47176

Related notices

• USN-7043-1: libcupsfilters1, cups-browsed, libfontembed-dev, libfontembed1, libcupsfilters-dev, cups-filters, cups-filters-core-drivers