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Fedora: 2015-11192 Critical Update for Cups-Filters Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An update to cups-filters on Fedora 21 addresses various problems, improving both system stability and security features.
Fixes CVE-2015-3258 & CVE-2015-3279

Summary

Contains backends, filters, and other software that was

once part of the core CUPS distribution but is no longer maintained by

Apple Inc. In addition it contains additional filters developed

independently of Apple, especially filters for the PDF-centric printing

workflow introduced by OpenPrinting.

Update Information:

Fixes CVE-2015-3258 & CVE-2015-3279

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue buffer overflow Fedora remote access system update cups-filters

Change Log

* Fri Jul 3 2015 Jiri Popelka - 1.0.71-1 - 1.0.71 * Mon Mar 2 2015 Jiri Popelka - 1.0.66-1 - 1.0.66 * Mon Feb 16 2015 Jiri Popelka - 1.0.65-1 - 1.0.65 * Fri Oct 10 2014 Jiri Popelka - 1.0.61-1 - 1.0.61 * Tue Oct 7 2014 Jiri Popelka - 1.0.60-1 - 1.0.60 * Sun Sep 28 2014 Jiri Popelka - 1.0.59-1 - 1.0.59

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-11192 2015-07-04 17:45:55
Name : cups-filtersProduct : Fedora 21 Version : 1.0.71 Release : 1.fc21 URL : : OpenPrinting CUPS filters and backends Description : Contains backends, filters, and other software that was once part of the core CUPS distribution but is no longer maintained by Apple Inc. In addition it contains additional filters developed independently of Apple, especially filters for the PDF-centric printing workflow introduced by OpenPrinting.

Update Instructions

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

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Name: cups-filtersProduct : Fedora 21
Version: 1.0.71
Release: 1.fc21
URL: : OpenPrinting CUPS filters and backends

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue buffer overflow Fedora remote access system update cups-filters

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