Scientific Linux: CUPS Security Advisory Moderate Level Denial of Service

Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:39:43 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for cups on SL3.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: cups security update
Issue date:	2008-12-15
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-5183 CVE-2008-5286

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the way CUPS handled
subscriptions for printing job completion notifications. A local user could
use this flaw to crash the CUPS daemon by submitting a large number of
printing jobs requiring mail notification on completion, leading to a
denial of service. (CVE-2008-5183)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap buffer overflow, was discovered
in the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) decoding routines used by the CUPS
image-converting filters, "imagetops" and "imagetoraster". An attacker
could create a malicious PNG file that could, potentially, execute
arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed. (CVE-2008-5286)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
cups-1.1.17-13.3.55.src.rpm
 i386:
cups-1.1.17-13.3.55.i386.rpm
cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.55.i386.rpm
cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.55.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
cups-1.1.17-13.3.55.x86_64.rpm
cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.55.x86_64.rpm
cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.55.i386.rpm
cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.55.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
cups-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.src.rpm
 i386:
cups-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
cups-devel-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
cups-libs-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
cups-lpd-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
cups-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
cups-devel-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
cups-devel-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
cups-libs-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
cups-libs-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
cups-lpd-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson