Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / cups (ELSA-2007-1020)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67598

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-1020 advisory.

[1.2.4-11.14.el5_1.1]
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4351 (STR #2561, bug #353981).

[1.2.4-11.14]
- Applied patch to fix cupsd crash when failing to open a file: URI (STR #2351, bug #250415).

[1.2.4-11.13]
- Moved LSPP security attributes check before job creation (bug #231522).

[1.2.4-11.12]
- Moved LSPP access check before job creation (bug #231522).

[1.2.4-11.11]
- Better error checking in the LSPP patch (bug #231522).

[1.2.4-11.10]
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-3387 (bug #248223).

[1.2.4-11.9]
- Fixed IPv6 address parsing (bug #241400, STR #2117).
- Fixed a bug that caused cups-lpd not to set the correct value for job-originating-host-name (bug #240223, STR #2023).
- Cleaned up initscript error handling (bug #237953).
- Fixed cups-lpd -odocument-format=... option (bug #230073, STR #2266).
- Fixed If-Modified-Since: handling in libcups (bug #218764, STR #2133).
- Make the initscript use start priority 56 (bug #213828).

[1.2.4-11.8]
- Applied fix for STR #2264 (bug #230118).
- Added patch for UNIX domain sockets authentication (bug #230613).
- LSPP: Updated patch for line-wrapped labels (bug #228107).

[1.2.4-11.7]
- Don't reload CUPS after rotating the logs with logrotate, but make sure to use the new file in that case (bug #215024).

[1.2.4-11.6]
- LSPP: added check_context() function for get_jobs(), get_job_attrs() and validate_user() (bug #229673).
- Fixed a potential scheduler crash (bug #231522).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2007-1020.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67598

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-1020.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4351

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4351

RHSA: 2007:1020