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Debian DSA-545-1 : cupsys - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15382

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Alvaro Martinez Echevarria discovered a problem in CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System. An attacker can easily disable browsing in CUPS by sending a specially crafted UDP datagram to port 631 where cupsd is running.

Solution

Upgrade the cups packages.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.14-5woody6.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-545

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15382

File Name: debian_DSA-545.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cupsys

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0558

DSA: 545