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Debian: DSA-3283-1 Moderate: CUPS Remote Privilege Escalation Issue

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2015
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CUPS vulnerability patch released for Debian tackling potential remote exploit. It is advised to upgrade promptly to protect your environment.
It was discovered that CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, is vulnerable to a remotely triggerable privilege escalation via cross-site scripting and bad print job submission use...
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.7.5-11+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.7.5-12.

We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



Package: cups
CVE ID: CVE-2015-1158 CVE-2015-1159

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