CVE-2015-2265 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2265?

CVE-2015-2265 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 24 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The remove_bad_chars function in utils/cups-browsed.c in cups-filters before 1.0.66 allows remote IPP printers to execute arbitrary commands via consecutive shell metacharacters in the (1) model or (2) PDL. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2707.

Weakness: CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2265?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2265?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2015-2265 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2265, GHSA-4f5g-64px-29pq, MGASA-2015-0132, SUSE-SU-2015:0805-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2265, USN-2532-1.