cups-pk-helper before 0.2.3 does not properly wrap the (1) cupsGetFile and (2) cupsPutFile function calls, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read or overwrite sensitive files using CUPS resources.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - cups-pk-helper before 0.2.3 does not properly wrap the (1) cupsGetFile and (2) cupsPutFile function calls,     which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read or overwrite sensitive files using CUPS resources.
    (CVE-2012-4510)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Updated cups-pk-helper package fixes security vulnerability :

cups-pk-helper, a PolicyKit helper to configure CUPS with fine-grained privileges, wraps CUPS function calls in an insecure way. This could lead to uploading sensitive data to a CUPS resource, or overwriting specific files with the content of a CUPS resource. The user would have to explicitly approve the action (CVE-2012-4510).

This update fixes CVE-2012-4510.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to cups-pk-helper-0.2.4. Fixes CVE-2012-4510.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

cups-pk-helper, a PolicyKit helper to configure CUPS with fine-grained privileges, wraps CUPS function calls in an insecure way. This could lead to uploading sensitive data to a CUPS resource, or overwriting specific files with the content of a CUPS resource. The user would have to explicitly approve the action.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
217801	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2012-4510	Nessus	Misc.	high
66083	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups-pk-helper (MDVSA-2013:069)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
63233	Fedora 16 : cups-pk-helper-0.1.3-4.fc16 (2012-18927)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
63209	Fedora 17 : cups-pk-helper-0.2.2-2.fc17 (2012-18950)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
63208	Fedora 18 : cups-pk-helper-0.2.4-1.fc18 (2012-17907)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
62664	Debian DSA-2562-1 : cups-pk-helper - privilege escalation	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-4510

high

Tenable Plugins

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medium

medium

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medium