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Debian DSA-3283-1 : cups - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 84063

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, is vulnerable to a remotely triggerable privilege escalation via cross-site scripting and bad print job submission used to replace cupsd.conf on the CUPS server.

Solution

Upgrade the cups packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.5-11+deb8u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/cups

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/cups

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3283

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 84063

File Name: debian_DSA-3283.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1158, CVE-2015-1159

DSA: 3283