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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-57812

low Nessus Plugin ID 275251

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and `libcupsfilters` contains the code of the filters of the former `cups-filters` package as library functions to be used for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. In CUPS-Filters versions up to and including 1.28.17 and libscupsfilters versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.1, CUPS-Filters's `imagetoraster` filter has an out of bounds read/write vulnerability in the processing of TIFF image files. While the pixel buffer is allocated with the number of pixels times a pre-calculated bytes-per-pixel value, the function which processes these pixels is called with a size of the number of pixels times 3. When suitable inputs are passed, the bytes- per-pixel value can be set to 1 and bytes outside of the buffer bounds get processed. In order to trigger the bug, an attacker must issue a print job with a crafted TIFF file, and pass appropriate print job options to control the bytes-per-pixel value of the output format. They must choose a printer configuration under which the `imagetoraster` filter or its C-function equivalent `cfFilterImageToRaster()` gets invoked. The vulnerability exists in both CUPS-Filters 1.x and the successor library libcupsfilters (CUPS-Filters 2.x). In CUPS-Filters 2.x, the vulnerable function is `_cfImageReadTIFF() in libcupsfilters`. When this function is invoked as part of `cfFilterImageToRaster()`, the caller passes a look-up-table during whose processing the out of bounds memory access happens. In CUPS-Filters 1.x, the equivalent functions are all found in the cups-filters repository, which is not split into subprojects yet, and the vulnerable code is in `_cupsImageReadTIFF()`, which is called through `cupsImageOpen()` from the `imagetoraster` tool. A patch is available in commit b69dfacec7f176281782e2f7ac44f04bf9633cfa. (CVE-2025-57812)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-57812

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-57812

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 275251

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_57812.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 11/12/2025

Updated: 12/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-57812

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-filters-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cups-filters-driverless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcupsfilters, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cups-filters, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupsfilters, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cups-filters-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-filters-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcupsfilters, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups-filters, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-filters-driverless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-filters, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cups-filters-libs, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-57812