RHSA-2009:1513: Moderate: cups security update
First published: Thu Oct 15 2009(Updated: )
The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer<br>for UNIX operating systems. The CUPS "pdftops" filter converts Portable<br>Document Format (PDF) files to PostScript.<br>Two integer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS "pdftops" filter. An<br>attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause "pdftops" to<br>crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file<br>was printed. (CVE-2009-3608, CVE-2009-3609)<br>Red Hat would like to thank Chris Rohlf for reporting the CVE-2009-3608<br>issue.<br>Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which<br>contain a backported patch to correct these issues. After installing the<br>update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| redhat/cups | <1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 | 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 |
| redhat/cups | <1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 | 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 |
| redhat/cups-devel | <1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 | 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 |
| redhat/cups-devel | <1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 | 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 |
| redhat/cups-libs | <1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 | 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 |
| redhat/cups-libs | <1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 | 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 |
| redhat/cups-lpd | <1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 | 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 |
| redhat/cups-lpd | <1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 | 1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 |
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