CVE-2010-5325

Publication date 15 April 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the unhtmlify function in foomatic-rip in foomatic-filters before 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long job title.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cups-filters	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
foomatic-filters	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

code not present in cups-filters/precise, fixed in later versions

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H