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CVE-2023-4504

Published: Sep 21, 2023

Modified: Nov 4, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
OpenPrinting	CUPS	affected `0 - < 2.4.6`
OpenPrinting	libppd	affected `0 - < d09348b`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-4504.html

technical-description

third-party-advisory

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libppd/security/advisories/GHSA-4f65-6ph5-qwh6

vendor-advisory

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-pf5r-86w9-678h

vendor-advisory

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.7

release-notes

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AMYDKIE4PSJDEMC5OWNFCDMHFGLJ57XG/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5WVS4I7JG3LISFPKTM6ADKJXXEPEEWBQ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5WHEJIYMMAIXU2EC35MGTB5LGGO2FFJE/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/T2GSPQAFK2Z6L57TRXEKZDF42K2EVBH7/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00041.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PXPVADB56NMLJWG4IZ3OZBNJ2ZOLPQJ6/

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