CVE-2025-64524 - CVE House

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Status published Low CVE-2025-64524

CUPS rastertopclx Filter Vulnerable to Heap Buffer Overflow Leading to Potential Arbitrary Code Execution

3.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

cups-filters contains backends, filters, and other software required to get the cups printing service working on operating systems other than macos. In versions 2.0.1 and prior, a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the rastertopclx filter causes the program to crash with a segmentation fault when processing maliciously crafted input data. This issue can be exploited to trigger memory corruption, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. This issue has been patched via commit 956283c.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

OpenPrinting

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Affected Software

cups-filters

Vulnerable Versions:

<= 2.0.1

Timeline

Official Publish: November 20th, 2025

Last Modified: November 21st, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1055 Process Injection

Defense Evasion