Fedora 10 Update: cups-1.3.9-4.fc10
Summary
The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for
UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products
to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users.
CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces.
Update Information:
Security update to fix CVE-2008-5183. Also changed in this update: * a bug that caused cups-polld to fail to resolve hostnames has been fixed * a bug that could cause libcups to get stuck in a loop has been fixed * the dnssd backend has been removed as it is not working correctly and can prevent printers being added
Change Log
* Wed Dec 3 2008 Tim Waugh
References
[ 1 ] Bug #473901 - CVE-2008-5183 cups: DoS (daemon crash) by adding a large number of RSS subscriptions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473901
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update cups' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .