Description

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.12 and earlier, an unsafe deserialization and validation of printer attributes causes null dereference in the libcups library. This is a remote DoS vulnerability available in local subnet in default configurations. It can cause the cups & cups-browsed to crash, on all the machines in local network who are listening for printers (so by default for all regular linux machines). On systems where the vulnerability CVE-2024-47176 (cups-filters 1.x/cups-browsed 2.x vulnerability) was not fixed, and the firewall on the machine does not reject incoming communication to IPP port, and the machine is set to be available to public internet, attack vector "Network" is possible. The current versions of CUPS and cups-browsed projects have the attack vector "Adjacent" in their default configurations. Version 2.4.13 contains a patch for CVE-2025-58364.

Weaknesses 2

Affected Products 1

References 4

• openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/11/2
• github.com https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/e58cba9d6fceed4242980e51dbd1302cf638ab1d
  Patch
• github.com https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-7qx3-r744-6qv4
  ExploitVendor Advisory
• lists.debian.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00013.html

Remediation

• github.com https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/e58cba9d6fceed4242980e51dbd1302cf638ab1d
  Patch