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Debian 8 Jessie DLA-1426-1 Moderate: CUPS Escalation Threats

debian lts
Calendar Grey July 14, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Package : cups Version : 1.7.5-11+deb8u4 CVE ID : CVE-2018-4180 CVE-2018-4181 CVE-2018-6553 Several
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System
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Summary

Dan Bastone of Gotham Digital Science discovered that a local
attacker with access to cupsctl could escalate privileges by setting
an environment variable.

CVE-2018-4181

Eric Rafaloff and John Dunlap of Gotham Digital Science discovered
that a local attacker can perform limited reads of arbitrary files
as root by manipulating cupsd.conf.

CVE-2018-6553

Dan Bastone of Gotham Digital Science discovered that an attacker
can bypass the AppArmor cupsd sandbox by invoking the dnssd backend
using an alternate name that has been hard linked to dnssd.

For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
1.7.5-11+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.

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


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Package: cups
Version: 1.7.5-11+deb8u4
CVE ID: CVE-2018-4180 CVE-2018-4181 CVE-2018-6553

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