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Fedora Core 3 : cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.8.7 (2005-908)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19870

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

A bug was found in the way CUPS processes malformed HTTP requests. It is possible for a remote user capable of connecting to the CUPS daemon to issue a malformed HTTP GET request which will cause CUPS to enter an infinite loop. This is CVE-2005-2874.

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?004b62ad

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19870

File Name: fedora_2005-908.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2874

FEDORA: 2005-908