Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 21, 2023· Updated Nov 4, 2025
OpenPrinting CUPS/libppd Postscript Parsing Heap Overflow
CVE-2023-4504
Description
Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted PPD PostScript document, CUPS and libppd are susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow and possibly code execution. This issue has been fixed in CUPS version 2.4.7, released in September of 2023.
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Affected products
51<2.4.7+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <2.4.7
- (no CPE)range: 0
(expand)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 0
- osv-coords47 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/cupspkg:apk/chainguard/cups-clientpkg:apk/chainguard/cups-devpkg:apk/chainguard/cups-docpkg:apk/chainguard/cups-libspkg:apk/chainguard/ipptoolpkg:apk/wolfi/cupspkg:apk/wolfi/cups-clientpkg:apk/wolfi/cups-devpkg:apk/wolfi/cups-docpkg:apk/wolfi/cups-libspkg:apk/wolfi/ipptoolpkg:rpm/opensuse/cups&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/cups&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/cups&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.2pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.2pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/cups&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 2.4.7-r0+ 46 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.7-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.2-7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.11-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.7-150000.3.51.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-20.46.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
10- github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/security/advisories/GHSA-pf5r-86w9-678hmitrevendor-advisory
- github.com/OpenPrinting/libppd/security/advisories/GHSA-4f65-6ph5-qwh6mitrevendor-advisory
- takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-4504.htmlmitretechnical-descriptionthird-party-advisory
- github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/releases/tag/v2.4.7mitrerelease-notes
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00041.htmlmitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5WHEJIYMMAIXU2EC35MGTB5LGGO2FFJE/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5WVS4I7JG3LISFPKTM6ADKJXXEPEEWBQ/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AMYDKIE4PSJDEMC5OWNFCDMHFGLJ57XG/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXPVADB56NMLJWG4IZ3OZBNJ2ZOLPQJ6/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T2GSPQAFK2Z6L57TRXEKZDF42K2EVBH7/mitre
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