usn-6844-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2024-06-24 10:11
Modified
2026-06-25 10:46
Summary
cups vulnerability
Details
Rory McNamara discovered that when starting the cupsd server with a Listen configuration item, the cupsd process fails to validate if bind call passed. An attacker could possibly trick cupsd to perform an arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable access to the target.
References
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
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"aliases": [],
"details": "Rory McNamara discovered that when starting the cupsd server with a\nListen configuration item, the cupsd process fails to validate if\nbind call passed. An attacker could possibly trick cupsd to perform\nan arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable\naccess to the target.\n",
"id": "USN-6844-1",
"modified": "2026-06-25T10:46:24Z",
"published": "2024-06-24T10:11:08Z",
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"summary": "cups vulnerability",
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]
}
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