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Fedora 11: 2009-10891 Critical: CUPS XSS And Reference Counting Issues

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
CUPS enhancements in Fedora 11 address XSS vulnerabilities and refine reference counting management, incorporating multiple crucial patches.
Updated to 1.4.2 including XSS security fix (CVE-2009-2820)

Summary

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for

UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products

to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users.

CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces.

Update Information:

Updated to 1.4.2 including XSS security fix (CVE-2009-2820). Fixed improper reference counting in abstract file descriptors handling interface (CVE-2009-3553). Fixed admin.cgi crash when modifying a class. Fix cups-lpd to create unique temporary data files. Pass through serial parameters correctly in web interface. Set the PRINTER_IS_SHARED variable for admin.cgi Fix removing files with lprm. Fixed German translation. Fixed PostScript errors with number-up handling. Fixed lspp-patch to avoid memory leak. Upstream fix for GNU TLS error handling bug. Reset SIGPIPE handler for child processes. Fixed typo in admin web template. Fixed incorrect handling of out-of-memory when loading jobs. Fixed wrong driver reported in web interface.

Change Log

* Thu Nov 19 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.2-7 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2009-3553 (bug #530111, STR #3200). * Tue Nov 17 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.2-6 - Fixed display of current driver (bug #537182, STR #3418). - Fixed out-of-memory handling when loading jobs (bug #538054, STR #3407). * Mon Nov 16 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.2-5 - Fixed typo in admin web template (bug #537884, STR #3403). - Reset SIGPIPE handler for child processes (bug #537886, STR #3399). * Mon Nov 16 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.2-4 - Upstream fix for GNU TLS error handling bug (bug #537883, STR #3381). * Wed Nov 11 2009 Jiri Popelka 1:1.4.2-3 - Fixed lspp-patch to avoid memory leak (bug #536741). * Tue Nov 10 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.2-2 - Added explicit version dependency on cups-libs to cups-lpd (bug #502205). * Tue Nov 10 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.2-1 - 1.4.2. No longer need str3380, str3332, str3356, str3396 patches. - Removed postscript.ppd.gz (bug #533371). * Tue Nov 3 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.1-8 - Removed stale patch from STR #2831 which was causing problems with number-up (bug #532516). * Tue Oct 27 2009 Jiri Popelka 1:1.4.1-7 - Fix incorrectly applied patch from #STR3285 (bug #531108). - Set the PRINTER_IS_SHARED variable for admin.cgi (bug #529634, #STR3390). - Pass through serial parameters correctly in web interface (bug #529635, #STR3391). - Fixed German translation (bug #531144, #STR3396). * Tue Oct 20 2009 Jiri Popelka 1:1.4.1-6 - Fix cups-lpd to create unique temporary data files (bug #529838). * Mon Oct 19 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.1-5 - Fixed German translation (bug #529575, STR #3380). * Thu Oct 8 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.1-4 - Fixed naming of 'Generic PostScript Printer' entry. * Wed Oct 7 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.1-3 - Use upstream patch for STR #3356 (bug #526405). * Fri Oct 2 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.1-2 - Fixed orientation of page labels when printing text in landscape mode (bug #520141, STR #3334). * Wed Sep 30 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.1-1 - 1.4.1. - Don't use cached PPD for raw queue (bug #526405, STR #3356). * Fri Sep 4 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.0-2 - Fixed the dnssd backend so that it only reports devices once avahi resolution has completed. This makes it report Device IDs (bug #520858). * Fri Aug 28 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4.0-1 - 1.4.0. * Wed Aug 26 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.20 - Fixed admin.cgi crash when modifying a class (bug #519724, STR #3312, patch from Jiri Popelka). * Wed Aug 26 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.19 - Prevent infinite loop in cupsDoIORequest when processing HTTP errors (bug #518065, bug #519663, STR #3311). - Fixed document-format-supported attribute when application/octet-stream is enabled (bug #516507, STR #3308, patch from Jiri Popelka). - Fixed buggy JobKillDelay handling fix (STR #3292). - Prevent infinite loop in ppdc (STR #3293). * Fri Aug 21 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.17 - Removed 3-distribution symlink (bug #514244). * Tue Aug 18 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.16 - Fixed JobKillDelay handling for cancelled jobs (bug #518026, STR #3292). - Use 'exec' to invoke ghostscript in the pstoraster filter. This allows the SIGTERM signal to reach the correct process, as well as conserving memory (part of bug #518026). * Tue Aug 11 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.15 - Avoid empty BrowseLocalProtocols setting (bug #516460, STR #3287). - Fixed ppds.dat handling of drv files (bug #515027, STR #3279). - Fixed udev rules file to avoid DEVTYPE warning messages. - Fixed cupsGetNamedDest() so it does not fall back to the default printer when a destination has been named (bug #516439, STR #3285). - Fixed MIME type rules for image/jpeg and image/x-bitmap (bug #516438, STR #3284). - Clear out cache files on upgrade. - Require acl. * Thu Aug 6 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.14 - Ship udev rules to allow libusb to access printer devices. - Fixed duplex test pages (bug #514898, STR #3277). - Removed temporary snmp option from socket backend. * Wed Jul 29 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.12 - Fixed Avahi support in the dnssd backend (bug #513888). - Fixed incorrect arguments to sigaction() in dnssd backend (STR #3272). - Cheaply restore compatibility with 1.1.x by having cups_get_sdests() perform a CUPS_GET_CLASSES request if it is not sure it is talking to CUPS 1.2 or later (bug #512866). * Tue Jul 28 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.11 - Temporarily added snmp option to socket backend for debugging purposes. - Prevent ipp backend looping with bad IPP devices (bug #476424, STR #3262). - Fixed Device ID reporting in the usb backend (STR #3266). * Wed Jul 15 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.10 - Applied patch to prevent bad job control files crashing cupsd on start-up (STR #3253, bug #509741). - Correctly handle CUPS-Get-PPDs requests for models with '+' in their names (STR #3254, bug #509586). - Accept incorrect device URIs in the (non-libusb) usb backend for compatibility with Fedora 11 before bug #507244 was fixed. - Applied patch to fix incorrect device URIs (STR #3259, bug #507244). - Applied patch to fix job-hold-until for remote queues (STR #3258, bug #497376). * Mon Jul 13 2009 Remi Collet 1:1.4-0.rc1.9 - add PHP ABI check - use php_extdir - add php configuration file (/etc/php.d/cups.ini) * Fri Jul 10 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.8 - Build does not require aspell-devel (bug #510405). * Wed Jul 1 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.7 - Fixed template problem preventing current printer option defaults from being shown in the web interface (bug #506794, STR #3244). * Wed Jul 1 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.6 - Fixed lpadmin for remote 1.3.x servers (bug #506977, STR #3231). * Tue Jun 23 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.5 - Added more debugging output when constructing filter chain. * Thu Jun 18 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.4 - More complete fix for STR #3229 (bug #506461). * Wed Jun 17 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.3 - Don't use RPM_SOURCE_DIR macro. - Fixed add/modify-printer templates which had extra double-quote characters, preventing the Continue button from appearing in certain browsers (bug #506461, STR #3229). * Wed Jun 17 2009 Tim Waugh 1:1.4-0.rc1.1 - 1.4rc1. No longer need str3124, CVE-2009-0163, CVE-2009-0164, str3197, missing-devices patches. - Disabled avahi patch for the time being. More work is needed to port this to rc1. - Removed wbuffer patch as it is not needed (see STR #1968).

References


[ 1 ] Bug #529833 - CVE-2009-2820 cups: Several XSS flaws in forms processed by CUPS web interface https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529833 [ 2 ] Bug #530111 - CVE-2009-3553 cups: Use-after-free (crash) due improper reference counting in abstract file descriptors handling interface https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530111

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update cups' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: cups
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.4.2
Release: 7.fc11
Summary: Common Unix Printing System

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