DSA-2176-1 cups -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2176-1 cups -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

02 Mar 2011

Affected Packages:

cups

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5183, CVE-2009-3553, CVE-2010-0540, CVE-2010-0542, CVE-2010-1748, CVE-2010-2431, CVE-2010-2432, CVE-2010-2941.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Common UNIX Printing System:

• CVE-2008-5183

  A null pointer dereference in RSS job completion notifications could lead to denial of service.

• CVE-2009-3553

  It was discovered that incorrect file descriptor handling could lead to denial of service.

• CVE-2010-0540

  A cross-site request forgery vulnerability was discovered in the web interface.

• CVE-2010-0542

  Incorrect memory management in the filter subsystem could lead to denial of service.

• CVE-2010-1748

  Information disclosure in the web interface.

• CVE-2010-2431

  Emmanuel Bouillon discovered a symlink vulnerability in handling of cache files.

• CVE-2010-2432

  Denial of service in the authentication code.

• CVE-2010-2941

  Incorrect memory management in the IPP code could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.8-1+lenny9.

The stable distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid) had already been fixed prior to the initial Squeeze release.

We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.