Bug 1291227 (CVE-2015-8560) - CVE-2015-8560 cups-filters: foomatic-rip did not consider semicolon as illegal shell escape character
Summary: CVE-2015-8560 cups-filters: foomatic-rip did not consider semicolon as illega...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-8560
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1291228 1291229 1301076 1301077
Blocks: 1287524 1291230
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Reported: 2015-12-14 11:17 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:40 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: cups-filters 1.4.0
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:46:27 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0491 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: foomatic security update 2016-03-23 01:02:15 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2015-12-14 11:17:41 UTC 
Following security fix was released in v1.4.0:

- foomatic-rip: SECURITY FIX: Also consider the semicolon (';') as an illegal shell escape character. Thanks to Adam Chester (adam dot chester at pentest dot co dot uk) for the hint.

Upstream patch:

http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7419

CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/479
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-12-14 11:18:16 UTC 
Created foomatic tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1291229]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2015-12-14 11:18:22 UTC 
Created cups-filters tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1291228]
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2015-12-14 11:43:54 UTC 
In terms of affected products and components (with respect to foomatic-filters packaged in cups-fitlers or foomatic packages), this issue is similar to CVE-2015-8327, see bug 1287523 comment 2.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-12-19 18:25:47 UTC 
cups-filters-1.4.0-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-12-30 17:50:08 UTC 
cups-filters-1.4.0-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-22 21:04:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0491 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0491.html
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