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SUSE update for cups
Secunia Advisory: SA28441
Release Date: 2008-01-11
Popularity: 5,625 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:openSUSE 10.2
openSUSE 10.3
SUSE Linux 10.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

Software:Novell Open Enterprise Server 1.x

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Description:
SUSE has issued an update for cups. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users or malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) A signedness error exists within the processing of ASN1 encoded strings from SNMP responses.

For more information:
SA28129

The vulnerability affects openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3 only.

2) An unspecified boundary error can be exploited by a user with administrator privileges to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted URI.

This is related to vulnerability #5 in:
SA28136

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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