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Red Hat update for cups Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA29087  
Release Date: 2008-02-25

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4


CVE reference:CVE-2008-0596 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0597 (Secunia mirror)

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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.
http://rhn.redhat.com

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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