Integer overflow in the TIFF image decoding routines in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image, which is not properly handled by the (1) _cupsImageReadTIFF function in the imagetops filter and (2) imagetoraster filter, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:0429 :

Updated cups packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Common UNIX(r) Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems.

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-1179)

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-1182)

Multiple flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder that could lead to the freeing of arbitrary memory. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed.
(CVE-2009-0166, CVE-2009-1180)

Multiple input validation flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0800)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was discovered in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) decoding routines used by the CUPS image-converting filters, 'imagetops' and 'imagetoraster'. An attacker could create a malicious TIFF file that could, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0163)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash when printed. (CVE-2009-0799, CVE-2009-1181, CVE-2009-1183)

Red Hat would like to thank Aaron Sigel, Braden Thomas and Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team, and Will Dormann of the CERT/CC for responsibly reporting these flaws.

Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:0428 :

Updated cups packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Common UNIX(r) Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems.

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was discovered in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) decoding routines used by the CUPS image-converting filters, 'imagetops' and 'imagetoraster'. An attacker could create a malicious TIFF file that could, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0163)

Red Hat would like to thank Aaron Sigel of the Apple Product Security team for responsibly reporting this flaw.

Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-1179)

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-1182)

Multiple flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder that could lead to the freeing of arbitrary memory. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed.
(CVE-2009-0166, CVE-2009-1180)

Multiple input validation flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0800)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was discovered in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) decoding routines used by the CUPS image-converting filters, 'imagetops' and 'imagetoraster'. An attacker could create a malicious TIFF file that could, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0163)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash when printed. (CVE-2009-0799, CVE-2009-1181, CVE-2009-1183)

After installing the update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was discovered in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) decoding routines used by the CUPS image-converting filters, 'imagetops' and 'imagetoraster'. An attacker could create a malicious TIFF file that could, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0163)

After installing the update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Multiple integer overflows in the JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, and other products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file, related to (1) JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg, (2) JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg, and (3) JBIG2Stream::readGenericBitmap. (CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-0147)

Integer overflow in the TIFF image decoding routines in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image, which is not properly handled by the (1) _cupsImageReadTIFF function in the imagetops filter and (2) imagetoraster filter, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2009-0163)

Integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, as used in Poppler and other products, when running on Mac OS X, has unspecified impact, related to g*allocn. (CVE-2009-0165)

The JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, and other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file that triggers a free of uninitialized memory. (CVE-2009-0166)

Heap-based buffer overflow in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9, and probably other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with crafted JBIG2 symbol dictionary segments (CVE-2009-0195).

Multiple integer overflows in the pdftops filter in CUPS 1.1.17, 1.1.22, and 1.3.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, possibly related to (1) Decrypt.cxx, (2) FoFiTrueType.cxx, (3) gmem.c, (4) JBIG2Stream.cxx, and (5) PSOutputDev.cxx in pdftops/. NOTE: the JBIG2Stream.cxx vector may overlap CVE-2009-1179. (CVE-2009-0791)

The JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file that triggers an out-of-bounds read. (CVE-2009-0799)

Multiple input validation flaws in the JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2009-0800)

The ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS before 1.3.10 does not properly initialize memory for IPP request packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a scheduler request with two consecutive IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED tags. (CVE-2009-0949)

Integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2009-1179)

The JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that triggers a free of invalid data. (CVE-2009-1180)

The JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file that triggers a NULL pointer dereference. (CVE-2009-1181)

Multiple buffer overflows in the JBIG2 MMR decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2009-1182)

The JBIG2 MMR decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and hang) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2009-1183)

Two integer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS pdftops filter. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause pdftops to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the lp user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-3608, CVE-2009-3609)

This update corrects the problems.

Update :

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers

Specially crafted tiff files could cause an integer overflow in the 'imagetops' filter. (CVE-2009-0163)

Specially crafted pdf files could cause overflows in the 'pdftops' filter. (CVE-2009-0165 / CVE-2009-0166 / CVE-2009-0146 / CVE-2009-0147 / CVE-2009-0799 / CVE-2009-0800 / CVE-2009-1179 / CVE-2009-1180 / CVE-2009-1181 / CVE-2009-1182 / CVE-2009-1183)

Specially crafted tiff files could cause an integer overflow in the 'imagetops' filter. (CVE-2009-0163)

The following bugs have been fixed :

  - Specially crafted tiff files could cause an integer     overflow in the 'imagetops' filter. (CVE-2009-0163)

  - Specially crafted pdf files could cause overflows in the     'pdftops' filter. (CVE-2009-0165, CVE-2009-0166,     CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-0799,     CVE-2009-0800, CVE-2009-1179, CVE-2009-1180,     CVE-2009-1181, CVE-2009-1182, CVE-2009-1183)

Specially crafted tiff files could cause an integer overflow in the 'imagetops' filter (CVE-2009-0163).

Updated cups packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Common UNIX(r) Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems.

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-1179)

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-1182)

Multiple flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder that could lead to the freeing of arbitrary memory. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed.
(CVE-2009-0166, CVE-2009-1180)

Multiple input validation flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0800)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was discovered in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) decoding routines used by the CUPS image-converting filters, 'imagetops' and 'imagetoraster'. An attacker could create a malicious TIFF file that could, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0163)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder.
An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash when printed. (CVE-2009-0799, CVE-2009-1181, CVE-2009-1183)

Red Hat would like to thank Aaron Sigel, Braden Thomas and Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team, and Will Dormann of the CERT/CC for responsibly reporting these flaws.

Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Gentoo security team summarizes :

The following issues were reported in CUPS :

- iDefense reported an integer overflow in the _cupsImageReadTIFF() function in the 'imagetops' filter, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-0163).

- Aaron Siegel of Apple Product Security reported that the CUPS web interface does not verify the content of the 'Host' HTTP header properly (CVE-2009-0164).

- Braden Thomas and Drew Yao of Apple Product Security reported that CUPS is vulnerable to CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-0147 and CVE-2009-0166, found earlier in xpdf and poppler.

A remote attacker might send or entice a user to send a specially crafted print job to CUPS, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the configured CUPS user -- by default this is 'lp', or a Denial of Service. Furthermore, the web interface could be used to conduct DNS rebinding attacks.

New cups packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and
-current to fix security issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200904-20 (CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    The following issues were reported in CUPS:
    iDefense     reported an integer overflow in the _cupsImageReadTIFF() function in     the 'imagetops' filter, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow     (CVE-2009-0163).
    Aaron Siegel of Apple Product Security     reported that the CUPS web interface does not verify the content of the     'Host' HTTP header properly (CVE-2009-0164).
    Braden Thomas and     Drew Yao of Apple Product Security reported that CUPS is vulnerable to     CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-0147 and CVE-2009-0166, found earlier in xpdf     and poppler.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker might send or entice a user to send a specially     crafted print job to CUPS, possibly resulting in the execution of     arbitrary code with the privileges of the configured CUPS user -- by     default this is 'lp', or a Denial of Service. Furthermore, the web     interface could be used to conduct DNS rebinding attacks.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

It was discovered that CUPS did not properly check the height of TIFF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted TIFF image file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. In Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04 LTS, and 8.10, attackers would be isolated by the AppArmor CUPS profile.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Specially crafted tiff files could cause an integer overflow in the 'imagetops' filter (CVE-2009-0163).

Specially crafted pdf files could cause overflows in the 'pdftops' filter (CVE-2009-0165, CVE-2009-0166, CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-0799, CVE-2009-0800, CVE-2009-1179, CVE-2009-1180, CVE-2009-1181, CVE-2009-1182, CVE-2009-1183).

This update fixes several security issues: CVE-2009-0163, CVE-2009-0164, CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-0147, and CVE-2009-0166. PDF files are now converted to PostScript using the poppler package's 'pdftops' program. NOTE: If your CUPS server is accessed using a hostname or hostnames not known to the server itself you must add 'ServerAlias hostname' to cupsd.conf for each such name. The special line 'ServerAlias *' disables checking (but this allows DNS rebinding attacks).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Updated cups packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Common UNIX(r) Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems.

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was discovered in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) decoding routines used by the CUPS image-converting filters, 'imagetops' and 'imagetoraster'. An attacker could create a malicious TIFF file that could, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0163)

Red Hat would like to thank Aaron Sigel of the Apple Product Security team for responsibly reporting this flaw.

Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

According to its banner, the version of CUPS installed on the remote host is earlier than 1.3.10. Such versions are affected by several issues :

  - A potential integer overflow in the PNG image validation     code in '_cupsImageReadPNG()' could allow an attacker to     crash the affected service or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (STR #2974)

  - A heap-based integer overflow exists in     '_cupsImageReadTIFF()' due to a failure to properly     validate the image height of a specially crafted TIFF     file, which can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code.
    (STR #3031)

  - The web interface may be vulnerable to DNS rebinding     attacks due to a failure to validate the HTTP Host     header in incoming requests. (STR #3118)

  - A heap-based buffer overflow in pdftops allows remote     attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with     crafted JBIG2 symbol dictionary segments.
    (CVE-2009-0195)

  - Flawed 'ip' structure initialization in the function     'ippReadIO()' could allow an anonymous remote attacker     to crash the application via a malicious IPP request     packet with two consecutives IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED tags.
    (CVE-2009-0949)

It was discovered that the imagetops filter in cups, the Common UNIX Printing System, is prone to an integer overflow when reading malicious TIFF images.

According to its banner, the version of CUPS installed on the remote host is earlier than 1.3.10.  Such versions are affected by multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities : 

  - A potential integer overflow in the PNG image validation code in '_cupsImageReadPNG()'. (STR #2974)

  - A heap-based integer overflow in '_cupsImageReadTIFF()'. (STR #3031)

  - The web interface may be vulnerable to DNS rebinding attacks due to a failure to validate the HTTP Host header in incoming requests. (STR #3118)

  - A heap-based buffer overflow in pdftops. (CVE-2009-0195)

  - Flawed 'ip' structure initialization in the function 'ippReadIO()' could allow an attacker to crash the application.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
67844	Oracle Linux 4 / 5 : cups (ELSA-2009-0429)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
67843	Oracle Linux 3 : cups (ELSA-2009-0428)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
60568	Scientific Linux Security Update : cups on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
60567	Scientific Linux Security Update : cups on SL3.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
42181	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDVSA-2009:282-1)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	critical
41494	SuSE 10 Security Update : CUPS (ZYPP Patch Number 6174)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
41377	SuSE 11 Security Update : CUPS (SAT Patch Number 790)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
41292	SuSE9 Security Update : CUPS (YOU Patch Number 12396)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
40207	openSUSE Security Update : cups (cups-784)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
39944	openSUSE Security Update : cups (cups-784)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
38897	CentOS 4 / 5 : cups (CESA-2009:0429)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
38705	FreeBSD : cups -- remote code execution and DNS rebinding (736e55bc-39bb-11de-a493-001b77d09812)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
38166	Slackware 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 / current : cups (SSA:2009-116-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	medium
38161	GLSA-200904-20 : CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
37978	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : cups, cupsys vulnerability (USN-760-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
37844	openSUSE 10 Security Update : cups (cups-6172)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
37075	Fedora 10 : cups-1.3.10-1.fc10 (2009-3769)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
36209	Fedora 9 : cups-1.3.10-1.fc9 (2009-3753)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
36187	CentOS 3 : cups (CESA-2009:0428)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
36183	CUPS < 1.3.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Misc.	high
36179	RHEL 4 / 5 : cups (RHSA-2009:0429)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
36178	RHEL 3 : cups (RHSA-2009:0428)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
36173	Debian DSA-1773-1 : cups - integer overflow	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
4771	CUPS < 1.3.10 Multiple Overflows	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Servers	high

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