First published: Mon Apr 16 2007(Updated: )
The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer<br>for UNIX(R) operating systems.<br>A bug was found in the way CUPS handled SSL negotiation. A remote user<br>capable of connecting to the CUPS daemon could cause a denial of service to<br>other CUPS users. (CVE-2007-0720)<br>All users of CUPS should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain<br>a backported patch introducing a timeout, which prevents connections being<br>kept open for an arbitrarily long time.
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
redhat/cups | <1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 | 1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 |
redhat/cups | <1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 | 1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 |
redhat/cups-devel | <1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 | 1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 |
redhat/cups-devel | <1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 | 1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 |
redhat/cups-libs | <1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 | 1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 |
redhat/cups-libs | <1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 | 1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 |
redhat/cups-lpd | <1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 | 1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 |
redhat/cups-lpd | <1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 | 1.2.4-11.5.1.el5 |
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