Fedora Core 6 : cups-1.2.12-5.fc6 (2007-740)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27638

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update prevents a remote code execution vulnerability in the IPP handling part of the CUPS scheduler.

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?3a6bf6d3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27638

File Name: fedora_2007-740.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

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, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-lpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-740