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REDHAT-BUG-1607291

REDHAT-BUG-1607291: Medium severity Apple CUPS vulnerability

Published Jul 23, 2018

Updated

It was found that a local attacker can perform limited reads of arbitrary files as root by manipulating cupsd.conf.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/apple/cups/commit/d47f6aec436e0e9df6554436e391471097686ecc

Affected Software

1 affected component

Apple CUPS

Event History

Jul 23, 2018

Data Sourced

via Red Hat·08:24 AM

DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Frequently Asked Questions

What access does an attacker need to exploit this issue?

The attacker must have local access and be able to manipulate the cupsd.conf configuration file. Successful exploitation allows limited reads of arbitrary files with root privileges.

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