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Ubuntu 4.10 : cupsys vulnerability (USN-185-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20596

Synopsis

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

Description

A flaw was detected in the printer access control list checking in the CUPS server. Printer names were compared in a case sensitive manner;
by modifying the capitalization of printer names, a remote attacker could circumvent ACLs and print to printers he should not have access to.

The Ubuntu 5.04 version of cupsys is not vulnerable against this.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20596

File Name: ubuntu_USN-185-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsimage2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2-gnutls10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-bsd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsimage2-dev

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-2154

USN: 185-1