CVE-2025-64503CWE-787

CVE-2025-64503

Medium · published November 13, 2025

CVSS v3.1
4.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In cups-filters prior to 1.28.18, by crafting a PDF file with a large `MediaBox` value, an attacker can cause CUPS-Filter 1.x’s `pdftoraster` tool to write beyond the bounds of an array. First, a PDF with a large `MediaBox` width value causes `header.cupsWidth` to become large. Next, the calculation of `bytesPerLine = (header.cupsBitsPerPixel * header.cupsWidth + 7) / 8` overflows, resulting in a small value. Then, `lineBuf` is allocated with the small `bytesPerLine` size. Finally, `convertLineChunked` calls `writePixel8`, which attempts to write to `lineBuf` outside of its buffer size (out of bounds write). In libcupsfilters, the maintainers found the same `bytesPerLine` multiplication without overflow check, but the provided test case does not cause an overflow there, because the values are different. Commit 50d94ca0f2fa6177613c97c59791bde568631865 contains a patch, which is incorporated into cups-filters version 1.28.18.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.0 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00228 · 12.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2025-11-13T03:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
openprinting/cups-filters< 1.28.181.28.18
openprinting/libcupsfilters≥ 2.0.0, < 2.1.22.1.2
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 NOV 22:04Z
    [BIGSLEEP-434615384] cups-filters 1.x: out of bounds write in pdftoraster
    cvelistv5