The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-4469 advisory.

    - 1825254 - CVE-2020-3898 cups: heap based buffer overflow in libcupss ppdFindOption() in ppd-mark.c

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

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

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

  - A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina     10.15.4. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2020-3898)

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

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2020:4469 advisory.

  - A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina     10.15.4. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2020-3898)

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

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2020:4469 advisory.

  - A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina     10.15.4. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2020-3898)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2020:14341-1 advisory.

  - A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina     10.15.4. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2020-3898)

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

Security fix for CVE-2020-3898

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1822154 - cups.service doesn't execute automatically on request

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

According to the versions of the cups packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved     validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina     10.15.4. An application may be able to gain elevated     privileges.(CVE-2020-3898)

  - A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved     memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave     10.14.6, Security Update 2019-004 High Sierra, Security     Update 2019-004 Sierra. An attacker in a privileged     network position may be able to execute arbitrary     code.(CVE-2019-8675)

  - A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved     memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave     10.14.6, Security Update 2019-004 High Sierra, Security     Update 2019-004 Sierra. An attacker in a privileged     network position may be able to execute arbitrary     code.(CVE-2019-8696)

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

Apple reports :

- CVE-2019-8842: The ippReadIO function may under-read an extension.

- CVE-2020-3898: The ppdOpen function did not handle invalid UI constraint. ppdcSource::get_resolution function did not handle invalid resolution strings. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges.

This update for cups fixes the following issues :

CVE-2020-3898: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in ppdFindOption() (bsc#1168422).

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

This update for cups fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2020-3898: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in     ppdFindOption() (bsc#1168422).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2020:4469 advisory.

  - cups: heap based buffer overflow in libcups's ppdFindOption() in ppd-mark.c (CVE-2020-3898)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
142789	Oracle Linux 8 : cups (ELSA-2020-4469)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/12/2020	11/1/2024	high
230263	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-3898	Nessus	Misc.	3/5/2025	3/5/2025	high
185028	Rocky Linux 8 : cups (RLSA-2020:4469)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	11/7/2023	11/7/2023	high
157672	AlmaLinux 8 : cups (ALSA-2020:4469)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	2/9/2022	2/14/2022	high
150583	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : cups (SUSE-SU-2020:14341-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/10/2021	6/10/2021	high
136378	Fedora 30 : 1:cups (2020-5a4da65166)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	5/7/2020	3/13/2024	high
142266	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : cups (EulerOS-SA-2020-2336)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	11/3/2020	2/12/2024	high
137793	FreeBSD : CUPS -- memory corruption (ce0c8590-b628-11ea-9d28-3c970ee9157c)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	6/25/2020	3/6/2024	high
135961	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : cups (SUSE-SU-2020:1045-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/24/2020	3/14/2024	high
135964	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : cups (SUSE-SU-2020:1083-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/24/2020	3/14/2024	high
136012	openSUSE Security Update : cups (openSUSE-2020-555)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/27/2020	3/14/2024	high
145896	CentOS 8 : cups (CESA-2020:4469)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	2/1/2021	3/23/2021	high

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