Detections
Analytics
RHEL 4 : cups (RHSA-2008:0161)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 31186
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated cups packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.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 4.
Note that the default configuration of CUPS on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 allow requests of this type only from the local subnet.
All CUPS users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.
Solution
Update the affected cups, cups-devel and / or cups-libs packages.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-0596
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 31186
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0161.nasl
Version: 1.24
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 2/26/2008
Updated: 1/14/2021
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: 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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.6
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
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