{"id":"USN-3713-1","summary":"cups vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain print jobs with\ninvalid usernames. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause\nCUPS to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected\nUbuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-18248)\n\nDan Bastone discovered that the CUPS dnssd backend incorrectly handled\ncertain environment variables. A local attacker could possibly use this\nissue to escalate privileges. (CVE-2018-4180)\n\nEric Rafaloff and John Dunlap discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled\ncertain include directives. A local attacker could possibly use this issue\nto read arbitrary files. (CVE-2018-4181)\n\nDan Bastone discovered that the CUPS AppArmor profile incorrectly confined\nthe dnssd backend. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escape\nconfinement. (CVE-2018-6553)\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:23Z","published":"2018-07-11T16:42:23Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18248","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-4180","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-4181","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6553"],"upstream":["CVE-2017-18248","CVE-2018-4180","CVE-2018-4181","CVE-2018-6553","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18248","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-4180","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-4181","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6553"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3713-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18248"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-4180"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-4181"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6553"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"cups","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/cups@1.7.2-0ubuntu1.10?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.7.2-0ubuntu1.10"}]}],"versions":["1.7.0~rc1-0ubuntu5","1.7.0-0ubuntu2","1.7.0-0ubuntu3","1.7.0-1","1.7.0-2","1.7.1-1","1.7.1-2","1.7.1-2git1","1.7.1-3","1.7.1-4","1.7.1-4ubuntu1","1.7.1-5ubuntu1","1.7.1-5ubuntu3","1.7.1-5ubuntu4","1.7.1-5ubuntu5","1.7.1-5ubuntu6","1.7.1-5ubuntu7","1.7.1-5ubuntu8","1.7.1-5ubuntu9","1.7.1-5ubuntu10","1.7.2-0ubuntu1","1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1","1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2","1.7.2-0ubuntu1.4","1.7.2-0ubuntu1.5","1.7.2-0ubuntu1.6","1.7.2-0ubuntu1.7","1.7.2-0ubuntu1.8","1.7.2-0ubuntu1.9"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No 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