CVE-2013-6473

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the urftopdf filter in cups-filters 1.0.25 before 1.0.47 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large (1) page or (2) line in a URF file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 13.10
Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters: 1.0.25, 1.0.26, 1.0.27, 1.0.28, 1.0.29, 1.0.30 (+16)

References

http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7175
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66601
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2143-1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741333
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027547
http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7175
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66601
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2143-1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741333
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027547

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