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Gentoo: 200409-25 Normal: CUPS Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey September 20, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo GLSA 202310-01 has discovered a Moderate level denial of service vulnerability within CUPS that can be exploited by attackers from a remote location.
A vulnerability in CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service when sending a carefully-crafted UDP packet to the IPP port.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200409-25
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: CUPS: Denial of service vulnerability
      Date: September 20, 2004
      Bugs: #64168
        ID: 200409-25


Synopsis
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A vulnerability in CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service when sending a carefully-crafted UDP packet to the IPP port.

Background
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The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a cross-platform print
spooler.

Affected packages
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     Package         /   Vulnerable   /                     Unaffected
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  1  net-print/cups      < 1.1.20-r2                      >= 1.1.20-r2

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Alvaro Martinez Echevarria discovered a hole in the CUPS Internet
Printing Protocol...
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