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Mageia 9: CUPS Important DoS Security Fixes MGASA-2025-0315

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Updated cups packages on Mageia resolve security flaws and potential DoS attacks related to CVE-2025-58436 and CVE-2025-61915.
MGASA-2025-0315 - Updated cups packages fix security vulnerabilities

Summary

Description: The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities and a regression with GTK+ apps caused by the fix for CVE-2025-58436: OpenPrinting CUPS slow client can halt cupsd, leading to a possible DoS attack. (CVE-2025-58436) OpenPrinting CUPS vulnerable to stack based out-of-bound write. (CVE-2025-61915)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34786

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/27/4

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/27/5

- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/1429

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-58436

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-61915

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important cups fix Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/cups-2.4.6-1.5.mga9

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Publication date: 03 Dec 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0315.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-58436, CVE-2025-61915

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important cups fix Mageia

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