Gentoo: GLSA-200812-11 High: CUPS Remote Code Execution Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: December 10, 2008 Bugs: #238976, #249727 ID: 200812-11

Synopsis ======= Several remotely exploitable bugs have been found in CUPS, which allow remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= CUPS is the Common Unix Printing System.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-print/cups < 1.3.9-r1 >= 1.3.9-r1
========== Several buffer overflows were found in:
* The read_rle16 function in imagetops (CVE-2008-3639, found by regenrecht, reported via ZDI)
* The WriteProlog function in textt...