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Fedora 22: FEDORA-2015-998911cf3f moderate: cups-filters shell escape

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Calendar Grey December 30, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 22 receives vital Cups-filters patch focusing on dangerous shell escape vulnerability. Secure your system immediately!
Fixes CVE-2015-8560

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once part of the core CUPS distribution but is no longer maintained by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-2015-8560

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora shell escape cups-filters

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1291227 - CVE-2015-8560 cups-filters: foomatic-rip did not consider semicolon as illegal shell escape character https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291227

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 .

Name: cups-filtersProduct : Fedora 22
Version: 1.4.0
Release: 1.fc22
URL: : OpenPrinting CUPS filters and backends

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora shell escape cups-filters

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