What is CVE-2014-9679?

CVE-2014-9679 is a vulnerability in Apple Cups, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2015-02-19.

Is CVE-2014-9679 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Apple Cups

CVE-2014-9679

Integer underflow in the cupsRasterReadPixels function in filter/raster.c in CUPS before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a malformed compressed raster file, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2015-02-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.046 (91.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.046 · newest: 0.046 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Apple Cups
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 12.04, 14.04
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 20, 21
openSUSE — versions 13.1, 13.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

mrash/afl-cve

References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1123.html (vendor-advisory)
www.cups.org/str.php (Vendor Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/10/15 (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2520-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00098.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-06 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150177.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1031776 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9679?: CVE-2014-9679 is a vulnerability in Apple Cups, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2015-02-19.
Is CVE-2014-9679 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.