🛡️ CVE-2026-8631 — linux-imaging-and-printing

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-122 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

A potential security vulnerability has been identified in the HP Linux Imaging and Printing Software. This potential vulnerability may allow escalation of privileges and/or arbitrary code execution via an integer overflow in the hpcups processing path when handling crafted print data.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-8631 is classified as CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow. A write past the end of a heap allocation corrupts allocator metadata or neighbouring objects.

Affected software

CVE-2026-8631 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • linux-imaging-and-printing (fixed in 3.26.4)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 20 May 2026 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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CVE-2026-8631 on other distributions

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Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-122
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-20
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux-imaging-and-printing 3.26.4
unknown

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