CVE-2023-34241

NameCVE-2023-34241
DescriptionOpenPrinting CUPS is a standards-based, open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Starting in version 2.0.0 and prior to version 2.4.6, CUPS logs data of free memory to the logging service AFTER the connection has been closed, when it should have logged the data right before. This is a use-after-free bug that impacts the entire cupsd process. The exact cause of this issue is the function `httpClose(con->http)` being called in `scheduler/client.c`. The problem is that httpClose always, provided its argument is not null, frees the pointer at the end of the call, only for cupsdLogClient to pass the pointer to httpGetHostname. This issue happens in function `cupsdAcceptClient` if LogLevel is warn or higher and in two scenarios: there is a double-lookup for the IP Address (HostNameLookups Double is set in `cupsd.conf`) which fails to resolve, or if CUPS is compiled with TCP wrappers and the connection is refused by rules from `/etc/hosts.allow` and `/etc/hosts.deny`. Version 2.4.6 has a patch for this issue.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3476-1
Debian Bugs1038885

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
cups (PTS)buster2.2.10-6+deb10u6vulnerable
buster (security)2.2.10-6+deb10u9fixed
bullseye2.3.3op2-3+deb11u6fixed
bullseye (security)2.3.3op2-3+deb11u2vulnerable
bookworm2.4.2-3+deb12u5fixed
trixie2.4.7-1fixed
sid2.4.7-1.2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
cupssourcebuster2.2.10-6+deb10u8DLA-3476-1
cupssourcebullseye2.3.3op2-3+deb11u3
cupssourcebookworm2.4.2-3+deb12u1
cupssource(unstable)2.4.2-51038885

Notes

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/06/22/4
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/9809947a959e18409dcf562a3466ef246cb90cb2
Introduced by: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/996acce8760c538b9fee69c99f274ffc27744386#diff-ea18088a3c3df78fec37244a94c58754b6e5cb7fbfd7066f6124de51a73c284d (v2.2b1)

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