CVE-2020-3898

Publication date 21 April 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.4. An application may be able to gain elevated privileges.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cups 20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.1
19.10 eoan
Fixed 2.2.12-2ubuntu1.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.8
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.11
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

as of 2020-04-20, does not appear to have landed upstream

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
cups

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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