Sunday, October 31, 2010

CUPS: Important security update

Users of CUPS please be advised of an Important security update that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
RHSA-2010:0811-01: [RHSA-2010:0811-01] Important: cups security update
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Description:



The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer

for UNIX operating systems.



A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the CUPS server parsed Internet

Printing Protocol (IPP) packets. A malicious user able to send IPP requests

to the CUPS server could use this flaw to crash the CUPS server or,

potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the CUPS server.

(CVE-2010-2941)
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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