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Fedora 10 Update: cups-1.3.10-1.fc10

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This update fixes several security issues: CVE-2009-0163, CVE-2009-0164, CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-0147, and CVE-2009-0166. PDF files are now converted to PostScript using the poppler package's "pdftops" program. NOTE: If your CUPS server is accessed using a hostname or hostnames not known to the server itself you must add "ServerAlias hostname" to cupsd.conf for each such name. The special line "ServerAlias *" disables checking (but this allows DNS rebinding attacks).

Fedora 9 Update: udev-124-4.fc9

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udev provides a user-space API and implements a dynamic device directory, providing only the devices present on the system. udev replaces devfs in order to provide greater hot plug functionality. Netlink is a datagram oriented service, used to transfer information between kernel modules and user-space processes. It was discovered that udev did not properly check the origin of Netlink messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain root privileges via a crafted Netlink message sent to udev, causing it to create a world- writable block device file for an existing system block device (for example, the root file system). (CVE-2009-1185) An integer overflow flaw, potentially leading to heap-based buffer overflow was found in one of the utilities providing functionality of the udev device information interface. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service, or possibly, to execute arbitrary code by providing a specially-crafted arguments as input to this utility. (CVE-2009-1186) Thanks to Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team for responsibly reporting this flaw. Users of udev are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, the udevd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Fedora 10 Update: udev-127-5.fc10

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udev provides a user-space API and implements a dynamic device directory, providing only the devices present on the system. udev replaces devfs in order to provide greater hot plug functionality. Netlink is a datagram oriented service, used to transfer information between kernel modules and user-space processes. It was discovered that udev did not properly check the origin of Netlink messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain root privileges via a crafted Netlink message sent to udev, causing it to create a world- writable block device file for an existing system block device (for example, the root file system). (CVE-2009-1185) An integer overflow flaw, potentially leading to heap-based buffer overflow was found in one of the utilities providing functionality of the udev device information interface. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service, or possibly, to execute arbitrary code by providing a specially-crafted arguments as input to this utility. (CVE-2009-1186) Thanks to Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team for responsibly reporting this flaw. Users of udev are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, the udevd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Fedora 9 Update: ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9

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This update fixes several security flaws: CVE-2009-0792 (multiple integer overflows and missing upper-bounds checks in icclib), CVE-2009-0196 (missing boundary check in jbig2dec library), and CVE-2008-6679 (buffer overflow in pdfwrite device).

Fedora 10 Update: argyllcms-1.0.3-4.fc10

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Multiple integer overflows and multiple insufficient upper-bounds checks on certain variable sizes were originally discovered in the Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format Library (icclib). It was found, the original patch, addressing this issue was incomplete.