CVE-2015-8327

high
Published 2015-12-17 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.2.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.2.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.2.0-1
debian debiansidfixed1.2.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.2.0-1
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
debian debian8.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.0
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.1
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.2
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.3
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.4
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.5
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.6
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.7
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.8
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.9
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.10
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.11
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.12
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.13
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.14
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.15
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.16
linuxfoundationfoomatic-filters4.0.17
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.42
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.43
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.44
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.45
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.46
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.47
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.48
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.49
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.50
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.51
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.52
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.53
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.54
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.55
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.56
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.57
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.58
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.59
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.60
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.61
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.62
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.63
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.64
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.65
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.66
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.67
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.68
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.69
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.70
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.71
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.72
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.73
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.74
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.75
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.0.76
linuxfoundationcups-filters1.1.0

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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