SUSE: 2018:2162-1 Moderate: cups Local Escalations and Bypass Fixes
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August 1, 2018
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available
Summary
This update for cups fixes the following issues: The following security vulnerabilities were fixed: - CVE-2017-18248: Handle invalid characters properly in printing jobs. This fixes a problem that was causing the DBUS library to abort the calling process. (bsc#1061066 bsc#1087018) - Fixed a local privilege escalation to root and sandbox bypasses in the scheduler - CVE-2018-4180: Fixed a local privilege escalation to root in dnssd backend (bsc#1096405) - CVE-2018-4181: Limited local file reads as root via cupsd.conf include directive (bsc#1096406) - CVE-2018-4182: Fixed a sandbox bypass due to insecure error handling (bsc#1096407) - CVE-2018-4183: Fixed a sandbox bypass due to profile misconfiguration (bsc#1096408) The following other issue was fixed:
References
#1050082 #1061066 #1087018 #1096405 #1096406
#1096407 #1096408
Cross- CVE-2017-18248 CVE-2018-4180 CVE-2018-4181
CVE-2018-4182 CVE-2018-4183
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18248.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-4180.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-4181.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-4182.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-4183.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1050082
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061066
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087018
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1096405
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1096406
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:2162-1
Rating: moderate
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