cups, cupsys vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2009-0949  

Anibal Sacco discovered that CUPS did not properly handle certain network operations. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw and cause the CUPS server to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

3 June 2009

cups, cupsys vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 9.04
  • Ubuntu 8.10
  • Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Software Description

  • cups
  • cupsys

Details

Anibal Sacco discovered that CUPS did not properly handle certain network operations. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw and cause the CUPS server to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.04
cups - 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 8.10
cups - 1.3.9-2ubuntu9.2
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
cupsys - 1.3.7-1ubuntu3.5
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
cupsys - 1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06.14

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

References