Important: cups security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for cups is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.

Security Fix(es):

• cups: authorization bypass when using "local" authorization (CVE-2022-26691)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• 30-second delays printing to Windows 2016 server via HTTPS (BZ#2073531)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the cupsd service will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2084321 - CVE-2022-26691 cups: authorization bypass when using "local" authorization

CVEs

• CVE-2022-26691

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important