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SUSE: 2021:14712-1 Important: Cups Privilege Escalation Threat

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2021
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SUSE releases a critical patch for cups to address CVE-2021-25317, carrying an important security rating. It's essential to implement these updates swiftly.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for cups fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-25317: ownership of /var/log/cups could allow privilege escalation from lp user to root via symlink attacks (bsc#1184161) 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 Server 11-SP4-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp4-cups-14712=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch sleposp3-cups-14712=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-cups-14712=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-cups-14712=1 Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS (i586 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

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security advisory security update privilege escalation important cups CUPS patch SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#1184161

Cross- CVE-2021-25317

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-25317 (SUSE): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-25317.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184161

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:14712-1
Rating: important

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