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CVE-2015-8327

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.2.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via ` (backtick) characters in a print job.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters: 1.0.42, 1.0.43, 1.0.44, 1.0.45, 1.0.46, 1.0.47 (+30)
• Linuxfoundation Foomatic-Filters: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+12)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 6.7.z
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

References

• http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/annotate/head:/NEWS
• http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7406
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00065.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0491.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3411
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3429
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78524
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2831-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2831-2
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806886
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2015/11/msg00020.html

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