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Debian: DSA-1530-1 Critical: CUPS Remote Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey March 25, 2008
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Enhance cups packages to resolve external exploit weaknesses impacting Debian systems. Strengthen platform integrity against service interruptions.
Double free vulnerability in the process_browse_data function in CUPS 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary cod...

Summary


CVE-2008-0882
Double free vulnerability in the process_browse_data function in CUPS
1.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon
crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted packets to the
cupsd port (631/udp), related to an unspecified manipulation of a
remote printer.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.7-4etch3

We recommend that you upgrade your cupsys 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 4.0 alias etch

Stable u...

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