Bug#1019733: cups-filters: printing to ipp printer causes pdftoraster to consume huge amounts of memory

[Martin Ottenwaelter <martin.ottenwaelter@gmail.com>]

Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.28.7-1+deb11u1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Hi,

Version 1.28.7-1+deb11u1 of cups-filters, which is distributed in bullseye, has a bug that causes pdftoraster to consume huge amounts of memory and results in the process being killed by the kernel. In this case (which depends on the printer and the cups filters being used), it is impossible to print. The bug was originally reported here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/+bug/1920190

Then fixed here:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/pull/363

And the fix is available in this release:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/1.28.9

I haven't found an updated version of cups-filters in bullseye backports, would you consider backporting this package so that bullseye users have the fix?

(I have installed cups-filters 1.28.16-1+b1 and it does fix my problem).

Thanks,
Martin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf

Kernel: Linux 5.15.61-v8+ (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cups-filters depends on:
ii  bc                         1.07.1-2+b2
ii  cups-filters-core-drivers  1.28.16-1+b1
ii  ghostscript                9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2
ii  libc6                      2.34-7
ii  libcups2                   2.3.3op2-3+deb11u2
ii  libcupsfilters1            1.28.7-1+deb11u1
ii  libfontconfig1             2.13.1-4.2
ii  libfontembed1              1.28.7-1+deb11u1
ii  libgcc-s1                  10.2.1-6
ii  libqpdf29                  11.0.0-3
ii  libstdc++6                 12.2.0-1
ii  poppler-utils              20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1

Versions of packages cups-filters recommends:
ii  colord             1.4.5-3
ii  liblouisutdml-bin  2.9.0-1
ii  lynx               2.9.0dev.10-1

Versions of packages cups-filters suggests:
pn  antiword                                   <none>
pn  docx2txt                                   <none>
pn  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db  <none>
pn  imagemagick                                <none>

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