Bug 1191588 (CVE-2014-9679)

Summary: CVE-2014-9679 cups: cupsRasterReadPixels buffer overflow
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: carnil, jpopelka, jrusnack, twaugh
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OS: Linux   
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An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way CUPS handled compressed raster image files. An attacker could create a specially crafted image file that, when passed via the CUPS Raster filter, could cause the CUPS filter to crash.
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Bug Depends On: 1191591, 1229982, 1229983, 1229984, 1229985    
Bug Blocks: 1221644    

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-11 14:45:24 UTC
It was reported [1] that a malformed compressed raster file can trigger a buffer overflow in cupsRasterReadPixels.
Upstream git commit that fixes this: https://www.cups.org/strfiles.php/3438/str4551.patch
Commited to the upstream cups.git as: 62bd8d91877f4f6f528195192e3d351c60d42e14

[1]: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4551

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-11 14:48:44 UTC
Created cups tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1191591]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-02-20 08:33:15 UTC
cups-1.7.5-12.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-02-21 04:23:24 UTC
cups-1.7.5-15.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-06-17 21:06:33 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1123 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1123.html

Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-18 03:59:10 UTC
Statement:

This issue affects the version of cups package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Cycle phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates.