CVE-2015-3279: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in filter/texttopdf.c in texttopdf in cups-filters before 1.0.71 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted line size in a print job, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only; version 15.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.1 only; version 8.0 only
• Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters: up to and including 1.0.70

Published 2015-07-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.