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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-09
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          PACKAGE : cups
          SUMMARY : Denial of service
             DATE : 2003-06-14 21:01 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =cups-1.1.18-r5
              CVE : CAN-2003-0195

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CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a partial 
printing request to the IPP port (631), which does not time out. 

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-print/cups upgrade to cups-1.1.18-r5 as follows

emerge sync
emerge cups
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at   
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Gentoo: cups denial of service vulnerability

CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a partial printing request to the IPP port (631), which does not time out.

Summary


GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-09


CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a partial 
printing request to the IPP port (631), which does not time out. 

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-print/cups upgrade to cups-1.1.18-r5 as follows

emerge sync
emerge cups
emerge clean

aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at

Resolution

References

Availability

Concerns

Severity
PACKAGE : cups
SUMMARY : Denial of service
DATE : 2003-06-14 21:01 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =cups-1.1.18-r5
CVE : CAN-2003-0195

Synopsis

Background

Affected Packages

Impact

Workaround

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