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Gentoo: GLSA-200804-01 High: CUPS Remote Code Exec And DoS

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Gentoo advisory GLSA-200804-01 outlines critical vulnerabilities in CUPS that may enable remote code execution and result in Denial of Service. These flaws necessitate immediate attention.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in CUPS, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200804-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 01, 2008 Bugs: #211449, #212364, #214068 ID: 200804-01

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in CUPS, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
Background ========= CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-print/cups < 1.2.12-r7 >= 1.2.12-r7
========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in CUPS:
* regenrecht (VeriSign iDefense) discovered that the cgiCompileSearch() fu...

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