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Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHSA-2008:0206-01 Moderate: CUPS Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat's latest patch tackles some moderate vulnerabilities in CUPS, identifying several buffer overflow risks that require user intervention.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the GIF decoding routines used by CUP...

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(R) operating systems.
Two overflows were discovered in the HP-GL/2-to-PostScript filter. An attacker could create a malicious HP-GL/2 file that could possibly execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file is printed. (CVE-2008-0053)
A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the GIF decoding routines used by CUPS image converting filters "imagetops" and "imagetoraster". An attacker could create a malicious GIF file that could possibly execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed. (CVE-2008-1373)
It was discovered that the patch used to address CVE-2004-0888 in CUPS packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 did not completely resolve the integer overflow in the "pdftops" filter on 64-bit platforms. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that could possibly execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed. (CVE-2008-1374)
All cups users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux CUPS image filter

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0053 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1373 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1374 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: cups-1.1.17-13.3.52.i386.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.i386.rpm cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.52.i386.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.i386.rpm
ia64: cups-1.1.17-13.3.52.ia64.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.i386.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.ia64.rpm cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.52.ia64.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.i386.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.ia64.rpm
ppc: cups-1.1.17-13.3.52.ppc.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.ppc.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.ppc64.rpm cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.52.ppc.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.ppc.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.ppc64.rpm
s390: cups-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390.rpm cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390.rpm
s390x: cups-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390x.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390x.rpm cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390x.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.s390x.rpm
x86_64: cups-1.1.17-13.3.52.x86_64.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.i386.rpm cups-debuginfo-1.1.17-13.3.52.x86_64.rpm cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.52.x86_64.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.i386.rpm cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.52.x86_64.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0206-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0206.html
Issue date: 2008-04-01

Topic

Updated cups packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux CUPS image filter

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

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

438117 - CVE-2008-0053 cups: buffer overflows in HP-GL/2 filter

438303 - CVE-2008-1373 cups: overflow in gif image filter

438336 - CVE-2008-1374 cups: incomplete fix for CVE-2004-0888 / CVE-2005-0206

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