Users of Common UNIX Printing System (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-2010:0866-02: [RHSA-2010:0866-02] 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.
An invalid 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.
(CVE-2010-2941)
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/a9Q6AL
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