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Fedora 25: cups-filters Security Update - Moderate Severity on API Issues

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Calendar Grey August 18, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 25 users should upgrade cups-filters promptly to fix serious vulnerabilities identified in earlier iterations. Details inside!
Patches solving CVEs in qpdf changes API, so cups-filters needed to be rebuilt with it

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once part of the core CUPS distribution but is no longer maintained by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

Patches solving CVEs in qpdf changes API, so cups-filters needed to be rebuilt

with it. ---- Reverting changes from previous update

[ 1 ] Bug #1454820 - CVE-2017-9208 CVE-2017-9209 CVE-2017-9210 qpdf: various flaws [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1454820

su -c 'dnf upgrade cups-filters' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.10.0
Release: 4.fc25
Summary: OpenPrinting CUPS filters and backends

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