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Scientific Linux 3: CVE-2009-0163 Moderate: CUPS Buffer Overflow Risk

Calendar Apr 17, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate security update buffer overflow heap overflow cups scientific linux
Moderate: cups security update 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:31:17 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: cups on SL3.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: cups security update
Issue date:	2009-04-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-0163

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)

After installing the update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted
automatically.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
cups-1.1.17-13.3.58.src.rpm
 i386:
cups-1.1.17-13.3.58.i386.rpm
cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.58.i386.rpm
cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.58.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
cups-1.1.17-13.3.58.x86_64.rpm
cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.58.x86_64.rpm
cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.58.i386.rpm
cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.58.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson