CentOS 3 / 4 : cups (CESA-2008:0153)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31168

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated cups packages that fixes two security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(R) operating systems.

A flaw was found in the way CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. A remote attacker could send malicious UDP IPP packets causing the CUPS daemon to attempt to dereference already freed memory and crash. (CVE-2008-0597)

A memory management flaw was found in the way CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. When shared printer was removed, allocated memory was not properly freed, leading to a memory leak possibly causing CUPS daemon crash after exhausting available memory. (CVE-2008-0596)

These issues were found during the investigation of CVE-2008-0882, which did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

Note that the default configuration of CUPS on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 allow requests of this type only from the local subnet.

In addition, these updated cups packages fix a bug that occurred when using the CUPS polling daemon. Excessive debugging log information was saved to the error_log file regardless of the LogLevel setting, which filled up disk space rapidly.

All CUPS users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected cups packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31168

File Name: centos_RHSA-2008-0153.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 2/26/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cups, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cups-libs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cups-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0596, CVE-2008-0597

BID: 27988

CWE: 399

RHSA: 2008:0153

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