Security Advisory SA29132 - Mandriva update for cups

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Secunia Advisory SA29132

Mandriva update for cups

Secunia Advisory

SA29132

Release Date

2008-02-28

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

DoS

Where

From local network

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Operating System

Mandriva Linux 2007.0

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-0886 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when adding or removing remote shared printers via IPP. This can be exploited to crash the CUPS daemon by sending specially crafted IPP packets to a vulnerable service.

Solution
Apply updated packages.
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Original Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:051

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