CVE-2015-8560

Publication date 15 December 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.4.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ; (semicolon) character in a print job, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8327.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cups-filters	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Fixed 1.0.76-1ubuntu0.2
	15.04 vivid	Fixed 1.0.67-0ubuntu2.6
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.7
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
foomatic-filters	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.17-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 4.0.16-0ubuntu0.4

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
cups-filters	Upstream: http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7419

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.3 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.3 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2838-1
cups-filters vulnerability
16 December 2015

USN-2838-2
foomatic-filters vulnerability
16 December 2015