Exploitation of multiple CUPS vulnerabilities allow local and remote attackers in the worst of the scenarios to gain root privileges.
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-13
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PACKAGE : cups
SUMMARY : multiple cups vulnerbilities
DATE : 2002-12-29 13:12 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote and local
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From iDEFENSE advisory:
"Exploitation of multiple CUPS vulnerabilities allow local and remote
attackers in the worst of the scenarios to gain root privileges."
Read the full advisory at
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-print/cups-1.1.17_pre20021025 or earlier update their systems as
follows:
emerge rsync
emerge cups
emerge clean
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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
lordvan@gentoo.org
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Exploitation of multiple CUPS vulnerabilities allow local and remote attackers in the worst of the scenarios to gain root privileges.