Wei Wang discovered that an buffer overflow in the SNMP backend
may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2007-6358
Elias Pipping discovered that insecure handling of a temporary
file in the pdftops.pl script may lead to local denial of service.
This vulnerability is not exploitable in the default configuration.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.7-4etch2.
The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected by CVE-2007-5849.
The other issue doesn't warrant an update on it's own and has been
postponed.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.5-1.
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...
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