Security Advisory SA29087 - Red Hat update for cups

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Secunia Advisory SA29087

Red Hat update for cups

Secunia Advisory

SA29087

Release Date

2008-02-25

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

DoS

Where

From local network

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Operating System

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-0596 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-0597 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Red Hat has issued an update for cups. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to a memory leak and a double free error when adding or removing remote shared printers via IPP. This can be exploited to crash the CUPS daemon by e.g. exhausting all available memory or causing memory to be freed twice by sending specially crafted IPP packets to a vulnerable service.

Solution
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Red Hat Security Team

Original Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0153.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0161.html

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