CVE-2023-4504 (GCVE-0-2023-4504)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-21 22:47 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
OpenPrinting CUPS/libppd Postscript Parsing Heap Overflow
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:29 UTC
CWE
- CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
11 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenPrinting | CUPS |
Affected:
0 , < 2.4.6
(semver)
|
guessed | |
| OpenPrinting | libppd |
Affected:
0 , < d09348b
(git)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2023-09-20 12:35
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