CVE-2015-8327: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 10.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.2.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via ` (backtick) characters in a print job.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters: version 1.0.42 only; version 1.0.43 only; version 1.0.44 only; version 1.0.45 only; version 1.0.46 only; version 1.0.47 only; …
• Linuxfoundation Foomatic-Filters: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.5 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 6.7.z only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2015-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.