Bug 1027547 (CVE-2013-6473) - CVE-2013-6473 cups-filters: two heap-based buffer overflow flaws in urftopdf
Summary: CVE-2013-6473 cups-filters: two heap-based buffer overflow flaws in urftopdf
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-6473
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1074840
Blocks: 1002935 1010117
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Reported: 2013-11-07 04:14 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2023-05-12 00:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-03-11 05:32:15 UTC
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Description Murray McAllister 2013-11-07 04:14:07 UTC 
Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the urftopdf filter. If a malicious URF file were processed, it could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the "lp" user.

Acknowledgements:

These issues were discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-11 05:11:49 UTC 
Public via:

http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7175

This issue has been resolved in upstream cups-filters-1.0.47
Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-11 05:17:57 UTC 
Created cups-filters tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1074840]
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