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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69164
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2010:0866
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2010:0866.

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer
for UNIX operating systems.

An invalid free flaw was found in the way the CUPS server parsed Internet
Printing Protocol (IPP) packets. A malicious user able to send IPP requests
to the CUPS server could use this flaw to crash the CUPS server.
(CVE-2010-2941)

Red Hat would like to thank Emmanuel Bouillon of NATO C3 Agency for
reporting this issue.

Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this
update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0866.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.9

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-2941
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
BugTraq ID: 44530
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44530
Debian Security Information: DSA-2176 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051301.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051277.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050977.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:233
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234
http://www.osvdb.org/68951
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2010:0811
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0811.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0866.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024662
http://secunia.com/advisories/42287
http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
http://secunia.com/advisories/43521
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.468323
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2010:023 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1012-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2856
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3042
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3088
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535
XForce ISS Database: cups-cupsd-code-execution(62882)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62882
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