{"id":"USN-4340-1","summary":"cups vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain language values. A\nlocal attacker could possibly use this issue to cause CUPS to crash,\nleading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.\nThis issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu\n19.10. (CVE-2019-2228)\n\nStephan Zeisberg discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled certain malformed\nppd files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute\narbitrary code. 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