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MiracleLinux 7 : cups-1.6.3-52.0.1.el7.AXS7 (AXSA:2024-8620:07)

high Nessus Plugin ID 293491

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2024-8620:07 advisory.

 * CVE-2023-4504: scan_ps(): check for null terminator after backslash character CVE(s):
 CVE-2023-4504 Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. This issue has been fixed in CUPS version 2.4.7, released in September of 2023.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/19804

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 293491

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2024-8620.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4504

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-devel, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cups-filesystem

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4504