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Debian DLA-159-1 : cups security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82142

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Peter De Wachter discovered that CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, did not correctly parse compressed raster files. By submitting a specially crafted raster file, a remote attacker could use this vulnerability to trigger a buffer overflow.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-7+squeeze7.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/02/msg00013.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/cups

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82142

File Name: debian_DLA-159.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups-bsd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups-ppdc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cupsddk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcups2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcups2-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupscgi1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupscgi1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupsdriver1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupsdriver1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupsimage2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupsimage2-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupsmime1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupsmime1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupsppdc1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcupsppdc1-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9679

BID: 72594