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Gentoo update for cups
Secunia Advisory: SA28113
Release Date: 2007-12-19
Popularity: 4,089 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for cups. This fixes a security issue and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

Note: This also fixes an incorrect patch for CVE-2007-0720, which introduced another DoS.

For more information:
SA24660
SA28129
SA28139

Change Page:
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