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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-069

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-069
Posted Apr 8, 2013
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-069 - 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.

tags | advisory
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2012-4510
SHA-256 | ff5002b343b18cedb8e0512238d466a0a6f6cc46e50c1366199112fa122abc7a

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-069

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:069
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : cups-pk-helper
Date : April 8, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated cups-pk-helper package fixes security vulnerability:

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 (CVE-2012-4510).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4510
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0310
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
6c7fbb5f4dcbf028951e62ffabfe5a9f mbs1/x86_64/cups-pk-helper-0.2.1-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
657c1b8aacdba57bc05236215ccb37a0 mbs1/SRPMS/cups-pk-helper-0.2.1-2.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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