Gentoo: GLSA-200812-11 High: CUPS Remote Code Execution Threat
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December 10, 2008
Several remotely exploitable bugs have been found in CUPS, which allow remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
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
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Several remotely exploitable bugs have been found in CUPS, which allow
remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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CUPS is the Common Unix Printing System.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-print/cups < 1.3.9-r1 >= 1.3.9-r1
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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...
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