CVE-2023-4504

Publication date 20 September 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. This issue has been fixed in CUPS version 2.4.7, released in September of 2023.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cups	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2.4.6-0ubuntu2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.4.6-0ubuntu2
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2.4.6-0ubuntu2
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 2.4.2-3ubuntu2.5
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.7
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.6
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.10+esm2 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.11+esm4 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support
libppd	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2:2.0~rc1-0ubuntu4
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2:2.0~rc1-0ubuntu4
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2:2.0~rc1-0ubuntu4
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 2:2.0~rc1-0ubuntu1.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Get expanded security coverage with Ubuntu Pro

Reduce your average CVE exposure time from 98 days to 1 day with expanded CVE patching, ten-years security maintenance and optional support for the full stack of open-source applications. Free for personal use.

Get Ubuntu Pro

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	0.0 · Low
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6391-1
CUPS vulnerability
20 September 2023

USN-6392-1
libppd vulnerability
20 September 2023

USN-6391-2
CUPS vulnerability
21 September 2023