DSA-2562-1 cups-pk-helper -- privilege escalation

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2562-1 cups-pk-helper -- privilege escalation

Date Reported:

23 Oct 2012

Affected Packages:

cups-pk-helper

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-4510.

More information:

cups-pk-helper, a PolicyKit helper to configure CUPS with fine-grained privileges, wraps CUPS function calls in an insecure way. This could lead to uploading sensitive data to a CUPS resource, or overwriting specific files with the content of a CUPS resource. The user would have to explicitly approve the action.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.0-3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cups-pk-helper packages.