Bug 1823964 (CVE-2020-3898) - CVE-2020-3898 cups: heap based buffer overflow in libcups's ppdFindOption() in ppd-mark.c
Summary: CVE-2020-3898 cups: heap based buffer overflow in libcups's ppdFindOption() i...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2020-3898
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1825253 1825254 1826330
Blocks: 1823965
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Reported: 2020-04-14 21:54 UTC by msiddiqu
Modified: 2021-02-16 20:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-11-04 02:24:54 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4469 0 None None None 2020-11-04 01:15:56 UTC

Description msiddiqu 2020-04-14 21:54:47 UTC 
A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in in libcups's ppdFindOption() function in ppd-mark.c:430. The issue can be reproduced by loading a crafted ppd file and calling the ppdMarkDefaults() libcups API function.
Comment 1 msiddiqu 2020-04-14 21:54:51 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Apple Product Security
Upstream: Stephan Zeisberg (Security Research Labs)
Comment 14 Stefan Cornelius 2020-04-21 12:55:24 UTC 
Public:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211100
Comment 15 Stefan Cornelius 2020-04-21 12:55:47 UTC 
Created cups tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1826330]
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 01:15:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:4469 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4469
Comment 17 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-04 02:24:54 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-3898
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