CVE-2015-3258 (GCVE-0-2015-3258)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-14 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the WriteProlog function in filter/texttopdf.c in texttopdf in cups-filters before 1.0.70 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a small line size in a print job.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
10 references
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|---|---|
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| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75436 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
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| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openpri… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235385 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3303 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2360.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
Date Public
2015-06-26 00:00
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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