🛡️ SUSE-SU-2026:20229-1 — cups (CVE-2025-61915 +3 more)
Description
Security update for cups
This update for cups fixes the following issues:
Update to version 2.4.16.
Security issues fixed:
- CVE-2025-61915: local denial-of-service via cupsd.conf update and related issues (bsc#1253783).
- CVE-2025-58436: slow client communication leads to a possible DoS attack (bsc#1244057).
- CVE-2025-58364: unsafe deserialization and validation of printer attributes can cause a null dereference (bsc#1249128).
- CVE-2025-58060: authentication bypass with AuthType Negotiate (bsc#1249049).
Other updates and bugfixes:
- Version upgrade to 2.4.16:
- 'cupsUTF8ToCharset' didn't validate 2-byte UTF-8 sequences,
potentially reading past the end of the source string
(Issue #1438)
- The web interface did not support domain usernames fully
(Issue #1441)
- Fixed an infinite loop issue in the GTK+ print dialog
(Issue #1439 boo#1254353)
- Fixed stopping scheduler on unknown directive in
configuration (Issue #1443)
- Fixed packages for Immutable Mode (jsc#PED-14775
from epic jsc#PED-14688)
- Version upgrade to 2.4.15:
- Fixed potential crash in 'cups-driverd' when there are
duplicate PPDs (Issue #1355)
- Fixed error recovery when scanning for PPDs
in 'cups-driverd' (Issue #1416)
- Version upgrade to 2.4.14.
- Version upgrade to 2.4.13:
- Added 'print-as-raster' printer and job attributes
for forcing rasterization (Issue #1282)
- Updated documentation (Issue #1086)
- Updated IPP backend to try a sanitized user name if the
printer/server does not like the value (Issue #1145)
- Updated the scheduler to send the "printer-added"
or "printer-modified" events whenever an IPP Everywhere PPD
is installed (Issue #1244)
- Updated the scheduler to send the "printer-modified" event
whenever the system default printer is changed (Issue #1246)
- Fixed a memory leak in 'httpClose' (Issue #1223)
- Fixed missing commas in 'ippCreateRequestedArray'
(Issue #1234)
- Fixed subscription issues in the scheduler and D-Bus notifier
(Issue #1235)
- Fixed media-default reporting for custom sizes (Issue #1238)
- Fixed support for IPP/PPD options with periods or underscores
(Issue #1249)
- Fixed parsing of real numbers in PPD compiler source files
(Issue #1263)
- Fixed scheduler freezing with zombie clients (Issue #1264)
- Fixed support for the server name in the ErrorLog filename
(Issue #1277)
- Fixed job cleanup after daemon restart (Issue #1315)
- Fixed handling of buggy DYMO USB printer serial numbers
(Issue #1338)
- Fixed unreachable block in IPP backend (Issue #1351)
- Fixed memory leak in _cupsConvertOptions (Issue #1354)
- Version upgrade to 2.4.12:
- GnuTLS follows system crypto policies now (Issue #1105)
- Added
NoSystemSSLOptions value (Issue #1130) - Now we raise alert for certificate issues (Issue #1194)
- Added Kyocera USB quirk (Issue #1198)
- The scheduler now logs a job's debugging history
if the backend fails (Issue #1205)
- Fixed a potential timing issue with
cupsEnumDests
(Issue #1084)
- Fixed a potential "lost PPD" condition in the scheduler
(Issue #1109)
- Fixed a compressed file error handling bug (Issue #1070)
- Fixed a bug in the make-and-model whitespace trimming
code (Issue #1096)
- Fixed a removal of IPP Everywhere permanent queue
if installation failed (Issue #1102)
- Fixed
ServerToken Nonein scheduler (Issue #1111) - Fixed invalid IPP keyword values created from PPD
option names (Issue #1118)
- Fixed handling of "media" and "PageSize" in the same
print request (Issue #1125)
- Fixed client raster printing from macOS (Issue #1143)
- Fixed the default User-Agent string.
- Fixed a recursion issue in
ippReadIO. - Fixed handling incorrect radix in
scan_ps()(Issue #1188) - Fixed validation of dateTime values with time zones
more than UTC+11 (Issue #1201)
- Fixed attributes returned by the Create-Xxx-Subscriptions
requests (Issue #1204)
- Fixed
ippDateToTimewhen using a non GMT/UTC timezone
(Issue #1208)
- Fixed
job-completedevent notifications for jobs that are
cancelled before started (Issue #1209)
- Fixed DNS-SD discovery with
ippfind(Issue #1211)
Affected software
SUSE-SU-2026:20229-1 is recorded against 1 package.
- cups (fixed in 2.4.16-160000.1.1)
Timeline and source
Published on 4 February 2026 and last revised on 23 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
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Details
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| cups | — | 2.4.16-160000.1.1 |
References
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