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CVE-2015-8560

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

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 (+32)
• Linuxfoundation Foomatic-Filters: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+12)

References

• http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/annotate/head:/NEWS
• http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7419
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0491.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3419
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3429
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/13/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/13
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2838-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2838-2
• http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/annotate/head:/NEWS
• http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7419

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