Scientific Linux Security Update : cups on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 60364
Synopsis
The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
SL 3 and SL 4 only A flaw was found in the way CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. A remote attacker could send malicious UDP IPP packets causing the CUPS daemon to attempt to dereference already freed memory and crash.
(CVE-2008-0597)
A memory management flaw was found in the way CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. When shared printer was removed, allocated memory was not properly freed, leading to a memory leak possibly causing CUPS daemon crash after exhausting available memory. (CVE-2008-0596)
SL 5 only A flaw was found in the way CUPS handles the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. A remote attacker could send malicious UDP IPP packets causing the CUPS daemon to crash.
(CVE-2008-0882)
Solution
Update the affected packages.