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Amazon Linux AMI : cups (ALAS-2023-1796)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179766

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of cups installed on the remote host is prior to 1.4.2-67.23. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1796 advisory.

 OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system. In versions 2.4.2 and prior, a heap buffer overflow vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack. A buffer overflow vulnerability in the function `format_log_line` could allow remote attackers to cause a DoS on the affected system. Exploitation of the vulnerability can be triggered when the configuration file `cupsd.conf` sets the value of `loglevel `to `DEBUG`. No known patches or workarounds exist at time of publication. (CVE-2023-32324)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update cups' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1796.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-32324.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179766

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1796.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32324

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-php, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cups-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-32324