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openSUSE 13.2, 13.1: 2015:1056-1 Critical CUPS Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey June 12, 2015
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The latest openSUSE security update fixes three critical vulnerabilities in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) that could expose sensitive data
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2015-1158 and CVE-2015-1159 fixes a possible privilege escalation

via cross-site scripting and bad print job submission used to replace

cupsd.conf on server (CUPS STR#4609 CERT-VU-810572 CVE-2015-1158

CVE-2015-1159 bugzilla.suse.com bsc#924208). In general it is crucial to

limit access to CUPS to trustworthy users who do not misuse their

permission to submit print jobs which means to upload arbitrary data

onto the CUPS server, see

and cf. the

entries about CVE-2012-5519 below.

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Topics Covered

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-418=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-418=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

cups-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-client-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-client-debuginfo-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-ddk-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-ddk-debuginfo-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-debuginfo-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-debugsource-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-devel-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-libs-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-libs-debuginfo-1.5.4-21.9.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64):

cups-libs-32bit-1.5.4-21.9.1

cups-libs-debuginfo-32bit-1.5.4-21.9.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

cups-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-client-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-client-debuginfo-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-ddk-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-ddk-debuginfo-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-debuginfo-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-debugsource-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-devel-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-libs-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-libs-debuginfo-1.5.4-12.20.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

cups-libs-32bit-1.5.4-12.20.1

cups-libs-debuginfo-32bit-1.5.4-12.20.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5519.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1158.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1159.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/924208

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1056-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 .

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Topics Covered

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