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>> CUPS PNG Filter Data Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Title : CUPS PNG Filter Data Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1226
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1722
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-15


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in CUPS, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. These issues are caused by integer overflow errors in the PNG Image Filter (filter/image-png.c) that does not validate the "CUPS_IMAGE_MAX_WIDTH" and "CUPS_IMAGE_MAX_HEIGHT" values, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code.

Affected Products

CUPS version 1.3.7 and prior

Solution

Apply patch :
http://www.cups.org/strfiles/2790/str2790.patch

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1226
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2790

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Thomas Pollet.

ChangeLog

2008-04-15 : Initial release

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