CVE-2014-9679

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Published 2015-02-19 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Integer underflow in the cupsRasterReadPixels function in filter/raster.c in CUPS before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a malformed compressed raster file, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9679

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4551

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9679.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.7.5-11
debian debianbullseyefixed1.7.5-11
debian debianforkyfixed1.7.5-11
debian debiansidfixed1.7.5-11
debian debiantrixiefixed1.7.5-11
ubuntu ubuntu10.04not-affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04not-affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04not-affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10not-affected
suse suse13.1not-affected
suse suse13.2not-affected
fedora fedora20not-affected
fedora fedora21not-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
applecups{"endIncluding":"2.0.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.