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Gentoo: GLSA-200412-25 High: CUPS Remote Code Execution Issues

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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.

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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 ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in CUPS, ranging from local Denial of Service attacks to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= 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 ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-print/cups < 1.1.23_rc1 >= 1.1.23_rc1
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