Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for cups. This fixes a security issue and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for cups
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28113
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28113/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for cups. This fixes a security issue and
some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users
to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious
people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a
vulnerable system.
Note: This also fixes an incorrect patch for CVE-2007-0720, which
introduced another DoS.
For more information:
SA24660
SA28129
SA28139
SOLUTION:
Update to "net-print/cups-1.2.12-r4" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-14.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA24660:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24660/
SA28129:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28129/
SA28139:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28139/
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