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Fedora 21 Critical: FEDORA-2015-9801 CUPS Security Flaw Fix

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This Debian upgrade addresses three significant vulnerabilities in the Samba file-sharing service, improving overall system integrity.
This update fixed 2 security flaws.

Summary

CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for

UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Apple Inc.

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

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

Update Information:

This update fixed 2 security flaws.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora DoS system update CUPS flaw fix

Change Log

* Wed Jun 10 2015 Jiri Popelka - 1:1.7.5-17 - CVE-2015-1158, CVE-2015-1159 (bug #1229979). * Wed Feb 18 2015 Tim Waugh - 1:1.7.5-16 - Don't report waste-receptacle SNMP state reasons (STR #4499, bug #1193105). * Mon Feb 16 2015 Tim Waugh - 1:1.7.5-15 - Apply upstream patch to fix CVE-2014-9679, cupsRasterReadPixels buffer overflow (STR #4551, bug #1191591). * Thu Nov 6 2014 Tim Waugh - 1:1.7.5-14 - Fixed some warnings in cups-lspp.patch. - New systemd journal fields CUPS_DEST and CUPS_PRINTER, as well as accurate code location fields.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1221641 - CVE-2015-1158 cups: incorrect string reference counting (VU#810572) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221641 [ 2 ] Bug #1221642 - CVE-2015-1159 cups: cross-site scripting flaw in CUPS web UI (VU#810572) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221642

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 21
Version: 1.7.5
Release: 17.fc21
URL: http://www.cups.org/
Summary: CUPS printing system

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora DoS system update CUPS flaw fix

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