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SUSE: 2018:2172-1 Moderate: CUPS Local Escalation And Bypass

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2018
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Important SUSE patch for cups addresses privilege escalation and bypass vulnerabilities. Immediate installation advised for security enhancement.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for cups fixes the following issues: The following security vulnerabilities were fixed: - 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) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15:

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate local privilege escalation cups SUSE security issues sandbox bypass

References

#1096405 #1096406 #1096407 #1096408

Cross- CVE-2018-4180 CVE-2018-4181 CVE-2018-4182

CVE-2018-4183

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

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/1096405

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1096406

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1096407

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1096408

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:2172-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate local privilege escalation cups SUSE security issues sandbox bypass

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