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RedHat: RHSA-2020-1765-01 Low Severity: CUPS Stack Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Alert issued for CUPS impacting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, noting low severity buffer overflow vulnerabilities; patches have been released.
An update for cups is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the cupsd service will be restarted automatically.

Summary

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.
Security Fix(es):
* cups: stack-buffer-overflow in libcups's asn1_get_type function (CVE-2019-8675)
* cups: stack-buffer-overflow in libcups's asn1_get_packed function (CVE-2019-8696)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity cups stack overflow printing system

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-8675 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-8696 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
aarch64: cups-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-client-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-client-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-debugsource-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-devel-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-ipptool-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-ipptool-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-libs-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-lpd-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm cups-lpd-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: cups-filesystem-2.2.6-33.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: cups-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-client-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-client-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-debugsource-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-devel-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-ipptool-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-ipptool-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-libs-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-lpd-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm cups-lpd-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: cups-2.2.6-33.el8.s390x.rpm cups-client-2.2.6-33.el8.s390x.rpm cups-client-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.s390x.rpm cups-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8.s390x.rpm cups-debugsource-2.2.6-33.el8.s390x.rpm cups-devel-2.2.6-33.el8.s390x.rpm cups-ipptool-2.2.6-33.el8.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1765-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1765
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for cups is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity cups stack overflow printing system

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1738455 - CVE-2019-8675 cups: stack-buffer-overflow in libcups's asn1_get_type function

1738497 - CVE-2019-8696 cups: stack-buffer-overflow in libcups's asn1_get_packed function

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