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GLSA-200409-25 : CUPS: Denial of service vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 14780

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200409-25 (CUPS: Denial of service vulnerability)

 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria discovered a hole in the CUPS Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) implementation that allows remote attackers to cause CUPS to stop listening on the IPP port.
 Impact :

 A remote user with malicious intent can easily cause a denial of service to the CUPS daemon by sending a specially crafted UDP datagram packet to the IPP port.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All CUPS users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=net-print/cups-1.1.20-r2' # emerge '>=net-print/cups-1.1.20-r2'

See Also

https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/863

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200409-25

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 14780

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200409-25.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 9/21/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:cups, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0558

GLSA: 200409-25