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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-25
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 28, 2004
Bugs: #74479, #75197
ID: 200412-25
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in CUPS, ranging from local
Denial of Service attacks to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a cross-platform print
spooler, hpgltops is a CUPS filter handling printing of HPGL files and
lppasswd is a program used locally to manage spooler passwords.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-print/cups < 1.1.23_rc1 >= 1.1.23_rc1
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CUPS ...
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