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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2009:0429-01 Important CUPS DoS Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey April 16, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important CUPS patch released for Red Hat, addressing several vulnerabilities impacting print functionalities. Recommended to upgrade.
Updated cups packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by t...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

The Common UNIX® Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems.
Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-1179)
Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-1182)
Multiple flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder that could lead to the freeing of arbitrary memory. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0166, CVE-2009-1180)
Multiple input validation flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0800)
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was discovered in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) decoding routines used by the CUPS image-converting filters, "imagetops" and "imagetoraster". An attacker could create a malicious TIFF file that could, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0163)
Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause CUPS to crash when printed. (CVE-2009-0799, CVE-2009-1181, CVE-2009-1183)
Red Hat would like to thank Aaron Sigel, Braden Thomas and Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team, and Will Dormann of the CERT/CC for responsibly reporting these flaws.
Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0146 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0147 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0163 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0166 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0799 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0800 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1179 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1180 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1181 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1182 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1183 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.i386.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.i386.rpm cups-devel-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.i386.rpm cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.i386.rpm
ia64: cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ia64.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.i386.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ia64.rpm cups-devel-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ia64.rpm cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.i386.rpm cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ia64.rpm
ppc: cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ppc.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ppc.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ppc64.rpm cups-devel-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ppc.rpm cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ppc.rpm cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.ppc64.rpm
s390: cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390.rpm cups-devel-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390.rpm cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390.rpm
s390x: cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390x.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390x.rpm cups-devel-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390x.rpm cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390.rpm cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0429-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2009-04-16

Topic

Updated cups packages that fix multiple security issues are now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

490596 - CVE-2009-0163 cups: Integer overflow in the TIFF image filter

490612 - CVE-2009-0146 xpdf: Multiple buffer overflows in JBIG2 decoder (setBitmap, readSymbolDictSeg)

490614 - CVE-2009-0147 xpdf: Multiple integer overflows in JBIG2 decoder

490625 - CVE-2009-0166 xpdf: Freeing of potentially uninitialized memory in JBIG2 decoder

491864 - Multiple PDF flaws

495886 - CVE-2009-0799 PDF JBIG2 decoder OOB read

495887 - CVE-2009-0800 PDF JBIG2 multiple input validation flaws

495889 - CVE-2009-1179 PDF JBIG2 integer overflow

495892 - CVE-2009-1180 PDF JBIG2 invalid free()

495894 - CVE-2009-1181 PDF JBIG2 NULL dereference

495896 - CVE-2009-1182 PDF JBIG2 MMR decoder buffer overflows

495899 - CVE-2009-1183 PDF JBIG2 MMR infinite loop DoS

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