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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1810-1] New cups/cupsys packages fix denial of service

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Tue Jun 2 23:10:07 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1810-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde
    June 2nd, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : cups, cupsys
    Vulnerability : null ptr dereference
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2009-0949


    Anibal Sacco discovered that cups, a general printing system for UNIX
    systems, suffers from null pointer dereference because of its handling
    of two consecutive IPP packets with certain tag attributes that are
    treated as IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED tags. This allows unauthenticated attackers
    to perform denial of service attacks by crashing the cups daemon.


    For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.2.7-4+etch8 of cupsys.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.3.8-1+lenny6 of cups.

    For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.


    We recommend that you upgrade your cups/cupsys packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Debian (oldstable)
    - ------------------

    Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.7.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4214272 c9ba33356e5bb93efbcf77b6e142e498
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.7-4+etch8.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1094 42b2e4d0d1709d31270cbd0361ded3f4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.7-4+etch8.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 109744 c73260161da939be7517c6ff0c5493cb

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-common_1.2.7-4+etch8_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 921366 4cec0d4b82b768bd42c801e87831eec9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsys2-gnutls10_1.2.7-4+etch8_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 46424 bc032e7d1c4520843b540d3bb238d3a3

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsimage2-dev_1.2.7-4+etch8_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 72856 a2c626b3f8dd8e43cecc395c5cf9ef03
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.7-4+etch8_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1614886 8286658ca407d05ecc87ea4cd2dc870a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsys2-dev_1.2.7-4+etch8_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 183730 f2c644de893bf0ca28868cfecefca04d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-client_1.2.7-4+etch8_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 85916 7233e6ec6bb857653d2829cd80012d41
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-dbg_1.2.7-4+etch8_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1093518 e6544fc0edd973d09a1e00652991845b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsimage2_1.2.7-4+etch8_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 96030 23aca27ae72c081612fb247cfd9e33da
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-bsd_1.2.7-4+etch8_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 39332 a931e92b73c1004f4c8ed110c01ac728
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsys2_1.2.7-4+etch8_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 175552 8bb48e7fdb170d74a14e65aecee3b230

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-dbg_1.2.7-4+etch8_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1087540 1e71685c6620845318d49cf1fcf5feb0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsimage2_1.2.7-4+etch8_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 87128 281a245270d6c2dcd7f0e1a6fc7d0b12
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-bsd_1.2.7-4+etch8_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 37572 c0491559f8465d610a0577cc23f00de5
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsys2_1.2.7-4+etch8_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 162892 42d1cf5ceaa5ed7a95f16b869e6df97f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-client_1.2.7-4+etch8_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 80862 511e522206e17f759cd7c56e934f08bd
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.7-4+etch8_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1572040 e2582ab015e6e3a3858b713d6f159a34
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsimage2-dev_1.2.7-4+etch8_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 53056 d4c82327123ddc2c0e48c804634603ae
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/libcupsys2-dev_1.2.7-4+etch8_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 142418 d9314cb33230b9c6dbe571671b14adda

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-dbg_1.2.7-4+etch8_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1023048 8b559f55ae312c59e22a113fd6928c5f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-bsd_1.2.7-4+etch8_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 36758 cb2e80f86795f10af3fc100aa4506def
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.7-4+etch8_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1567912 776f4974949a31b3facd38b302b8097a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cupsys/cupsys-client_1.2.7-4+etch8_arm.deb

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