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Gentoo: GLSA 200904-20 Normal: CUPS Remote Exec And DNS Issue

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2009
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CUPS vulnerabilities may enable remote code execution or DNS rebinding attacks. Ensure system updates are applied promptly to address these issues. Check the advisory for more info
Multiple errors in CUPS might allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code or DNS rebinding attacks.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-20 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 23, 2009 Bugs: #263070 ID: 200904-20

Synopsis ======= Multiple errors in CUPS might allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code or DNS rebinding attacks.
Background ========= CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System, is a full-featured print server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-print/cups < 1.3.10 >= 1.3.10
========== The following issues were reported in CUPS:
* iDefense reported an integer overflow in the _cupsImageReadTIFF() function in the "imagetops" filter, leading to a heap-based ...

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