CVE-2015-8560: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in util.c in foomatic-rip in cups-filters 1.0.42 before 1.4.0 and in foomatic-filters in Foomatic 4.0.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ; (semicolon) character in a print job, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8327.

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; …

Published 2016-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.