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Debian DSA-3429-1 Urgent Notice Regarding Foomatic-Rip Command Exploit

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3430-1 emphasizes the need to update the cups-filters package to fix vulnerabilities that may enable unauthorized access or command execution
Michal Kowalczyk and Adam Chester discovered that missing input sanitising in the foomatic-rip print filter might result in the execution of arbitrary commands
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 4.0.17-1+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.17-5+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.17-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your foomatic-filters 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/



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