CUPS could be made to provide access to printers over the network.
Jann Horn discovered that CUPS permitted HTTP requests with the Host header set to “localhost.localdomain” from the loopback interface. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in their web browser, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information or control printers, via a DNS rebinding attack. (CVE-2017-18190)
21 February 2018
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
CUPS could be made to provide access to printers over the network.
Jann Horn discovered that CUPS permitted HTTP requests with the Host header set to “localhost.localdomain” from the loopback interface. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in their web browser, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information or control printers, via a DNS rebinding attack. (CVE-2017-18190)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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