cups-filters - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: cups-filters (main)
version: 1.28.17-7
maintainer: Debian Printing Team (archive) (DMD) (LowNMU)
uploaders: Thorsten Alteholz [DMD] – Till Kamppeter [DMD]
arch: any
std-ver: 4.7.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1.28.7-1+deb11u2
o-o-sec: 1.28.7-1+deb11u3
oldstable: 1.28.17-3+deb12u1
old-sec: 1.28.17-3+deb12u1
stable: 1.28.17-6
testing: 1.28.17-6
unstable: 1.28.17-7

versioned links

1.28.7-1+deb11u2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.28.7-1+deb11u3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.28.17-3+deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.28.17-6: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.28.17-7: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

cups-browsed (15 bugs: 0, 12, 3, 0)
cups-filters (4 bugs: 0, 4, 0, 0)
cups-filters-core-drivers (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)
libcupsfilters-dev
libcupsfilters1t64
libfontembed-dev
libfontembed1t64

action needed

1 security issue in sid high

There is 1 open security issue in sid.

1 important issue:

CVE-2024-47850: CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.)

Created: 2024-09-26 Last update: 2025-11-21 07:00

4 security issues in forky high

There are 4 open security issues in forky.

4 important issues:

CVE-2024-47850: CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.)
CVE-2025-57812: CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and `libcupsfilters` contains the code of the filters of the former `cups-filters` package as library functions to be used for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. In CUPS-Filters versions up to and including 1.28.17 and libscupsfilters versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.1, CUPS-Filters's `imagetoraster` filter has an out of bounds read/write vulnerability in the processing of TIFF image files. While the pixel buffer is allocated with the number of pixels times a pre-calculated bytes-per-pixel value, the function which processes these pixels is called with a size of the number of pixels times 3. When suitable inputs are passed, the bytes-per-pixel value can be set to 1 and bytes outside of the buffer bounds get processed. In order to trigger the bug, an attacker must issue a print job with a crafted TIFF file, and pass appropriate print job options to control the bytes-per-pixel value of the output format. They must choose a printer configuration under which the `imagetoraster` filter or its C-function equivalent `cfFilterImageToRaster()` gets invoked. The vulnerability exists in both CUPS-Filters 1.x and the successor library libcupsfilters (CUPS-Filters 2.x). In CUPS-Filters 2.x, the vulnerable function is `_cfImageReadTIFF() in libcupsfilters`. When this function is invoked as part of `cfFilterImageToRaster()`, the caller passes a look-up-table during whose processing the out of bounds memory access happens. In CUPS-Filters 1.x, the equivalent functions are all found in the cups-filters repository, which is not split into subprojects yet, and the vulnerable code is in `_cupsImageReadTIFF()`, which is called through `cupsImageOpen()` from the `imagetoraster` tool. A patch is available in commit b69dfacec7f176281782e2f7ac44f04bf9633cfa.
CVE-2025-64503: cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In cups-filters prior to 1.28.18, by crafting a PDF file with a large `MediaBox` value, an attacker can cause CUPS-Filter 1.x’s `pdftoraster` tool to write beyond the bounds of an array. First, a PDF with a large `MediaBox` width value causes `header.cupsWidth` to become large. Next, the calculation of `bytesPerLine = (header.cupsBitsPerPixel * header.cupsWidth + 7) / 8` overflows, resulting in a small value. Then, `lineBuf` is allocated with the small `bytesPerLine` size. Finally, `convertLineChunked` calls `writePixel8`, which attempts to write to `lineBuf` outside of its buffer size (out of bounds write). In libcupsfilters, the maintainers found the same `bytesPerLine` multiplication without overflow check, but the provided test case does not cause an overflow there, because the values are different. Commit 50d94ca0f2fa6177613c97c59791bde568631865 contains a patch, which is incorporated into cups-filters version 1.28.18.
CVE-2025-64524: cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In versions 2.0.1 and prior, a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the rastertopclx filter causes the program to crash with a segmentation fault when processing maliciously crafted input data. This issue can be exploited to trigger memory corruption, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. This issue has been patched via commit 956283c.

Created: 2025-08-09 Last update: 2025-11-21 07:00

4 security issues in bullseye high

There are 4 open security issues in bullseye.

3 important issues:

CVE-2025-57812: CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and `libcupsfilters` contains the code of the filters of the former `cups-filters` package as library functions to be used for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. In CUPS-Filters versions up to and including 1.28.17 and libscupsfilters versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.1, CUPS-Filters's `imagetoraster` filter has an out of bounds read/write vulnerability in the processing of TIFF image files. While the pixel buffer is allocated with the number of pixels times a pre-calculated bytes-per-pixel value, the function which processes these pixels is called with a size of the number of pixels times 3. When suitable inputs are passed, the bytes-per-pixel value can be set to 1 and bytes outside of the buffer bounds get processed. In order to trigger the bug, an attacker must issue a print job with a crafted TIFF file, and pass appropriate print job options to control the bytes-per-pixel value of the output format. They must choose a printer configuration under which the `imagetoraster` filter or its C-function equivalent `cfFilterImageToRaster()` gets invoked. The vulnerability exists in both CUPS-Filters 1.x and the successor library libcupsfilters (CUPS-Filters 2.x). In CUPS-Filters 2.x, the vulnerable function is `_cfImageReadTIFF() in libcupsfilters`. When this function is invoked as part of `cfFilterImageToRaster()`, the caller passes a look-up-table during whose processing the out of bounds memory access happens. In CUPS-Filters 1.x, the equivalent functions are all found in the cups-filters repository, which is not split into subprojects yet, and the vulnerable code is in `_cupsImageReadTIFF()`, which is called through `cupsImageOpen()` from the `imagetoraster` tool. A patch is available in commit b69dfacec7f176281782e2f7ac44f04bf9633cfa.
CVE-2025-64503: cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In cups-filters prior to 1.28.18, by crafting a PDF file with a large `MediaBox` value, an attacker can cause CUPS-Filter 1.x’s `pdftoraster` tool to write beyond the bounds of an array. First, a PDF with a large `MediaBox` width value causes `header.cupsWidth` to become large. Next, the calculation of `bytesPerLine = (header.cupsBitsPerPixel * header.cupsWidth + 7) / 8` overflows, resulting in a small value. Then, `lineBuf` is allocated with the small `bytesPerLine` size. Finally, `convertLineChunked` calls `writePixel8`, which attempts to write to `lineBuf` outside of its buffer size (out of bounds write). In libcupsfilters, the maintainers found the same `bytesPerLine` multiplication without overflow check, but the provided test case does not cause an overflow there, because the values are different. Commit 50d94ca0f2fa6177613c97c59791bde568631865 contains a patch, which is incorporated into cups-filters version 1.28.18.
CVE-2025-64524: cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In versions 2.0.1 and prior, a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the rastertopclx filter causes the program to crash with a segmentation fault when processing maliciously crafted input data. This issue can be exploited to trigger memory corruption, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. This issue has been patched via commit 956283c.

1 ignored issue:

CVE-2024-47850: CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.)

Created: 2025-11-13 Last update: 2025-11-21 07:00

The VCS repository is not up to date, push the missing commits. high

vcswatch reports that the current version of the package is not in its VCS.
Either you need to push your commits and/or your tags, or the information about the package's VCS are out of date. A common cause of the latter issue when using the Git VCS is not specifying the correct branch when the packaging is not in the default one (remote HEAD branch), which is usually "master" but can be modified in salsa.debian.org in the project's general settings with the "Default Branch" field). Alternatively the Vcs-Git field in debian/control can contain a "-b <branch-name>" suffix to indicate what branch is used for the Debian packaging.

Created: 2025-11-20 Last update: 2025-11-20 21:30

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-11-23 16:30

lintian reports 6 warnings normal

Lintian reports 6 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-11-21 Last update: 2025-11-21 05:00

1 open merge request in Salsa normal

There is 1 open merge request for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2025-09-19 Last update: 2025-09-19 11:32

debian/patches: 13 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 13 debian patches available in version 1.28.17-7 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

13 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-11-21 08:00

4 low-priority security issues in trixie low

There are 4 open security issues in trixie.

3 issues left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2025-57812: (needs triaging) CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and `libcupsfilters` contains the code of the filters of the former `cups-filters` package as library functions to be used for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. In CUPS-Filters versions up to and including 1.28.17 and libscupsfilters versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.1, CUPS-Filters's `imagetoraster` filter has an out of bounds read/write vulnerability in the processing of TIFF image files. While the pixel buffer is allocated with the number of pixels times a pre-calculated bytes-per-pixel value, the function which processes these pixels is called with a size of the number of pixels times 3. When suitable inputs are passed, the bytes-per-pixel value can be set to 1 and bytes outside of the buffer bounds get processed. In order to trigger the bug, an attacker must issue a print job with a crafted TIFF file, and pass appropriate print job options to control the bytes-per-pixel value of the output format. They must choose a printer configuration under which the `imagetoraster` filter or its C-function equivalent `cfFilterImageToRaster()` gets invoked. The vulnerability exists in both CUPS-Filters 1.x and the successor library libcupsfilters (CUPS-Filters 2.x). In CUPS-Filters 2.x, the vulnerable function is `_cfImageReadTIFF() in libcupsfilters`. When this function is invoked as part of `cfFilterImageToRaster()`, the caller passes a look-up-table during whose processing the out of bounds memory access happens. In CUPS-Filters 1.x, the equivalent functions are all found in the cups-filters repository, which is not split into subprojects yet, and the vulnerable code is in `_cupsImageReadTIFF()`, which is called through `cupsImageOpen()` from the `imagetoraster` tool. A patch is available in commit b69dfacec7f176281782e2f7ac44f04bf9633cfa.
CVE-2025-64503: (needs triaging) cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In cups-filters prior to 1.28.18, by crafting a PDF file with a large `MediaBox` value, an attacker can cause CUPS-Filter 1.x’s `pdftoraster` tool to write beyond the bounds of an array. First, a PDF with a large `MediaBox` width value causes `header.cupsWidth` to become large. Next, the calculation of `bytesPerLine = (header.cupsBitsPerPixel * header.cupsWidth + 7) / 8` overflows, resulting in a small value. Then, `lineBuf` is allocated with the small `bytesPerLine` size. Finally, `convertLineChunked` calls `writePixel8`, which attempts to write to `lineBuf` outside of its buffer size (out of bounds write). In libcupsfilters, the maintainers found the same `bytesPerLine` multiplication without overflow check, but the provided test case does not cause an overflow there, because the values are different. Commit 50d94ca0f2fa6177613c97c59791bde568631865 contains a patch, which is incorporated into cups-filters version 1.28.18.
CVE-2025-64524: (needs triaging) cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In versions 2.0.1 and prior, a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the rastertopclx filter causes the program to crash with a segmentation fault when processing maliciously crafted input data. This issue can be exploited to trigger memory corruption, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. This issue has been patched via commit 956283c.

You can find information about how to handle these issues in the security team's documentation.

1 ignored issue:

CVE-2024-47850: CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.)

Created: 2025-08-09 Last update: 2025-11-21 07:00

4 low-priority security issues in bookworm low

There are 4 open security issues in bookworm.

3 issues left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2025-57812: (needs triaging) CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and `libcupsfilters` contains the code of the filters of the former `cups-filters` package as library functions to be used for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. In CUPS-Filters versions up to and including 1.28.17 and libscupsfilters versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.1, CUPS-Filters's `imagetoraster` filter has an out of bounds read/write vulnerability in the processing of TIFF image files. While the pixel buffer is allocated with the number of pixels times a pre-calculated bytes-per-pixel value, the function which processes these pixels is called with a size of the number of pixels times 3. When suitable inputs are passed, the bytes-per-pixel value can be set to 1 and bytes outside of the buffer bounds get processed. In order to trigger the bug, an attacker must issue a print job with a crafted TIFF file, and pass appropriate print job options to control the bytes-per-pixel value of the output format. They must choose a printer configuration under which the `imagetoraster` filter or its C-function equivalent `cfFilterImageToRaster()` gets invoked. The vulnerability exists in both CUPS-Filters 1.x and the successor library libcupsfilters (CUPS-Filters 2.x). In CUPS-Filters 2.x, the vulnerable function is `_cfImageReadTIFF() in libcupsfilters`. When this function is invoked as part of `cfFilterImageToRaster()`, the caller passes a look-up-table during whose processing the out of bounds memory access happens. In CUPS-Filters 1.x, the equivalent functions are all found in the cups-filters repository, which is not split into subprojects yet, and the vulnerable code is in `_cupsImageReadTIFF()`, which is called through `cupsImageOpen()` from the `imagetoraster` tool. A patch is available in commit b69dfacec7f176281782e2f7ac44f04bf9633cfa.
CVE-2025-64503: (needs triaging) cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In cups-filters prior to 1.28.18, by crafting a PDF file with a large `MediaBox` value, an attacker can cause CUPS-Filter 1.x’s `pdftoraster` tool to write beyond the bounds of an array. First, a PDF with a large `MediaBox` width value causes `header.cupsWidth` to become large. Next, the calculation of `bytesPerLine = (header.cupsBitsPerPixel * header.cupsWidth + 7) / 8` overflows, resulting in a small value. Then, `lineBuf` is allocated with the small `bytesPerLine` size. Finally, `convertLineChunked` calls `writePixel8`, which attempts to write to `lineBuf` outside of its buffer size (out of bounds write). In libcupsfilters, the maintainers found the same `bytesPerLine` multiplication without overflow check, but the provided test case does not cause an overflow there, because the values are different. Commit 50d94ca0f2fa6177613c97c59791bde568631865 contains a patch, which is incorporated into cups-filters version 1.28.18.
CVE-2025-64524: (needs triaging) cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In versions 2.0.1 and prior, a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the rastertopclx filter causes the program to crash with a segmentation fault when processing maliciously crafted input data. This issue can be exploited to trigger memory corruption, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. This issue has been patched via commit 956283c.

You can find information about how to handle these issues in the security team's documentation.

1 ignored issue:

CVE-2024-47850: CUPS cups-browsed before 2.5b1 will send an HTTP POST request to an arbitrary destination and port in response to a single IPP UDP packet requesting a printer to be added, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-47176. (The request is meant to probe the new printer but can be used to create DDoS amplification attacks.)

Created: 2024-09-26 Last update: 2025-11-21 07:00

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for cups-filters (1.28.17-6 to 1.28.17-7): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 2 of 5 days old
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/c/cups-filters.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on amd64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on arm64 - info ♻
- Not considered

news

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[2025-11-20] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-7 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2025-03-20] cups-filters 1.28.17-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-15] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-6 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2024-10-06] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-3+deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Thorsten Alteholz)
[2024-10-03] cups-filters 1.28.17-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-29] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.7-1+deb11u3 (source) into oldstable-security (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2024-09-29] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-3+deb12u1 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Thorsten Alteholz)
[2024-09-27] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-5 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2024-08-04] cups-filters 1.28.17-4.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-29] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-4.1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
[2024-05-02] cups-filters 1.28.17-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-04-21] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-4 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2024-02-27] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-3.1 (source) into unstable (Michael Hudson-Doyle)
[2024-01-30] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-3.1~exp1 (source amd64) into experimental (Michael Hudson-Doyle)
[2023-05-28] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.7-1+deb11u2 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Thorsten Alteholz)
[2023-05-25] cups-filters 1.28.17-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-05-21] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.7-1+deb11u2 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Thorsten Alteholz)
[2023-05-21] Accepted cups-filters 1.21.6-5+deb10u1 (source) into oldstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2023-05-19] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-3 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2023-03-16] cups-filters 1.28.17-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-03-11] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-2 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2023-02-10] cups-filters 1.28.17-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-02-05] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.17-1 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2022-09-08] cups-filters 1.28.16-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-09-04] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.16-1 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2022-04-18] cups-filters 1.28.15-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-04-18] cups-filters 1.28.15-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-04-12] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.15-1 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2022-04-12] cups-filters 1.28.14-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-04-07] Accepted cups-filters 1.28.14-1 (source) into unstable (Thorsten Alteholz)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 24
RC: 0
I&N: 20
M&W: 4
F&P: 0
patch: 1

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