Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-3279

Title: Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-3279.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Jul 14, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

31.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-3279: Integer overflow in filter/texttopdf.c in texttopdf in cups-filters before 1.0.71 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted line size in a print job, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

linuxfoundation 1

openprinting 1

Reference Links

http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7365 http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7366#NEWS http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7369 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00033.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2360.html http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2659-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3303 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/03/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/03/5 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75557 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238990 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-08 http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7365 http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7366#NEWS http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7369 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00033.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2360.html http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2659-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3303 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/03/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/03/5 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75557 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238990 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-08

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-3279 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 14, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.