CVE-2015-8560 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8560?

CVE-2015-8560 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 14 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.4.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ; (semicolon) character in a print job, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8327.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8560?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters, Linuxfoundation Foomatic-Filters.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8560?

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-2015-8560 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8560 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8560, DLA-371-1, DSA-3419-1, GHSA-rcfc-82wc-2wjm, MGASA-2015-0476, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8560 and 1 more.