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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 RHSA-2022-5055-01 Critical CUPS Auth Bypass

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical reveals a significant kernel update aimed at addressing a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, bolstering security for Ubuntu Server 20.04.
An update for cups is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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: authorization bypass when using "local" authorization (CVE-2022-26691)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux important cups authorization bypass

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-26691 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2):
aarch64: cups-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-client-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-client-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-debugsource-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-devel-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-ipptool-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-ipptool-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-libs-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-lpd-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cups-lpd-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: cups-filesystem-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: cups-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-client-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-client-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-debugsource-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-devel-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-ipptool-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-ipptool-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-libs-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-lpd-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cups-lpd-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: cups-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm cups-client-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm cups-client-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm cups-debuginfo-2.2.6-33.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:5055-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5055
Issue date: 2022-06-15

Topic

An update for cups is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux important cups authorization bypass

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2084321 - CVE-2022-26691 cups: authorization bypass when using "local" authorization

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