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Fedora Core 3: 2005-445 Urgent Patch for CUPS PDF Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2004
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent Fedora update for CUPS addresses a critical PDF handling issue. Immediate installation recommended for users.
A problem with PDF handling was discovered by Chris Evans, and has been fixed

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:

A problem with PDF handling was discovered by Chris Evans, and has been fixed. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (https://www.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0888 to this issue.

* Tue Oct 19 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.1.20-11.6

- One more overflow check, from Marcus Meissner (bug #135378).

* Tue Oct 12 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.1.20-11.5

- Apply patch to fix CAN-2004-0888 (bug #135378).


This update can be downloaded from:


362cd8cd8ce58e29139541352f7a30b1 SRPMS/cups-1.1.20-11.6.src.rpm 0922b45be7a61d968f0213013633aeaa x86_64/cups-1.1.20-11.6.x86_64.rpm f49aa4b825da5c1305edbcd37367c101 x86_64/cups-devel-1.1.20-11.6.x86_64.rpm 38fd39c7d10077badd2378fcbb4d45cb x86_64/cups-libs-1.1.20-11.6.x86_64.rpm 4ca29994dbb654e3714125e6db4e0194 x86_64/debug/cups-debuginfo-1.1.20-11.6.x86_64.rpm 019ce3783f4d466cbb4a85b102e11e08 x86_64/cups-libs-1.1.20-11.6.i386.rpm 8ddcc764c07ed351b7b6b7c90af7f0c7 i386/cups-1.1.20-11.6.i386.rpm f61...

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References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-337 2004-10-26
Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : cups Version : 1.1.20 Release : 11.6 Summary : Common Unix Printing System Description : 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 Instructions

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Product: Fedora Core 2
Name: cups
Version: 1.1.20
Release: 11.6
Summary: Common Unix Printing System

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