CVE-2025-57812
November 12, 2025
CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system, and "libcupsfilters" contains the code of the filters of the former "cups-filters" package as library functions to be used for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. In CUPS-Filters versions up to and including 1.28.17 and libscupsfilters versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.1, CUPS-Filters's "imagetoraster" filter has an out of bounds read/write vulnerability in the processing of TIFF image files. While the pixel buffer is allocated with the number of pixels times a pre-calculated bytes-per-pixel value, the function which processes these pixels is called with a size of the number of pixels times 3. When suitable inputs are passed, the bytes-per-pixel value can be set to 1 and bytes outside of the buffer bounds get processed. In order to trigger the bug, an attacker must issue a print job with a crafted TIFF file, and pass appropriate print job options to control the bytes-per-pixel value of the output format. They must choose a printer configuration under which the "imagetoraster" filter or its C-function equivalent "cfFilterImageToRaster()" gets invoked. The vulnerability exists in both CUPS-Filters 1.x and the successor library libcupsfilters (CUPS-Filters 2.x). In CUPS-Filters 2.x, the vulnerable function is "_cfImageReadTIFF() in libcupsfilters". When this function is invoked as part of "cfFilterImageToRaster()", the caller passes a look-up-table during whose processing the out of bounds memory access happens. In CUPS-Filters 1.x, the equivalent functions are all found in the cups-filters repository, which is not split into subprojects yet, and the vulnerable code is in "_cupsImageReadTIFF()", which is called through "cupsImageOpen()" from the "imagetoraster" tool. A patch is available in commit b69dfacec7f176281782e2f7ac44f04bf9633cfa.
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Base Score:
2.1
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
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CVSS v3
Base Score:
3.7
Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
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