Users of CUPS please be advised of a denial of service or arbitrary code execution vulnerability 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
USN-1012-1: [USN-1012-1] CUPS vulnerability
Details follow:
Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that CUPS did not properly handle certain
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) packets. A remote attacker could use this
flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. In
the default installation in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and later, attackers would be
isolated by the CUPS AppArmor profile.Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/eutx
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