Fedora Core 2 : cups-1.1.20-11.8 (2004-574)

high Nessus Plugin ID 16055

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This package fixes a buffer overflow which may possibly allow attackers to execute arbitrary code as the 'lp' user. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures projects (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-1125 to this issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?705ea179

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 16055

File Name: fedora_2004-574.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/27/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-libs, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1125

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2004-574