Debian: DSA-1407-1 Medium Severity: CUPS Buffer Overflow Threat
debian
November 18, 2007
Alin Rad Pop discovered that the Common UNIX Printing System is
vulnerable to an off-by-one buffer overflow in the code to process IPP
packets, which may lead to the execution of...
Summary
The cupsys version in the old stable distribution (sarge) is not
vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.
We recommend that you upgrade your cupsys packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 4214272 c9ba33356e5bb93efbcf77b6e142e498
Size/MD5 checksum: 102236 6a73afdc41561116f156326fd9d7fd0a
Size/MD5 checksum: 1084 0331998422b6b0e7d8461050918762a0
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 892958 b72f4306cdcc411968bc54491ac6696b
Size/MD5 checksum...
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