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cups: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | cups | CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0053 CVE-2008-1373 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | April 1, 2008 | Updated: | April 9, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | Two overflows were discovered in the HP-GL/2-to-PostScript filter. An attacker could create a malicious HP-GL/2 file that could possibly execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file is printed. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the GIF decoding routines used by CUPS image converting filters "imagetops" and "imagetoraster". An attacker could create a malicious GIF file that could possibly execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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