ubuntu · CVE-2014-8166

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Priority: low Published: 2018-01-12 17:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:26:24 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2014-8166 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cups), 12 status rows across 12 suites (artful, bionic, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 7, not-affected 3, DNE 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The browsing feature in the server in CUPS does not filter ANSI escape sequences from shared printer names, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted printer name.

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