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Fedora 8 : cups-1.3.6-2.fc8 (2008-1901)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 31173

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This updates CUPS to the latest stable version. Upstream version contains a fix for a security issue that may cause cups daemon to crash via special browse requests (CVE-2008-0882, #433758, SA28994, STR#2656).

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 cups package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433758

http://www.nessus.org/u?6e3ebf94

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 31173

File Name: fedora_2008-1901.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0882

BID: 27906

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-1901