Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 677
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 677

Debian 3.0 DSA-645-1 Critical: CUPS Remote Code Execution

debian
Calendar Grey January 19, 2005
Debian Logo
Enhance CUPS to remedy a severe buffer overflow issue that poses potential remote code execution threats in Debian platforms.
iDEFENSE has reported a buffer overflow in xpdf, the portable document format (PDF) suite

Summary


In the unstable distribution (sid) CUPSYS does not use its own xpdf
variant anymore but uses xpdf-utils.

We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 712 dba687dbc0a6992b0a3cdd8da496abdf
Size/MD5 checksum: 40770 083cfc2f84280ebaee765ec1ba7a8f29
Size/MD5 checksum: 6150756 0dfa41f29fa73e7744903b2471d2ca2f

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1901080 80c9b14b52397228088eb278ef07d897
Size/MD5 checksum: 74548 ...

Read the Full Advisory

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Related News

Your message here