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Debian DSA-1811-1 : cups, cupsys - null ptr dereference

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38992

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Anibal Sacco discovered that cups, a general printing system for UNIX systems, suffers from NULL pointer dereference because of its handling of two consecutive IPP packets with certain tag attributes that are treated as IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED tags. This allows unauthenticated attackers to perform denial of service attacks by crashing the cups daemon.

Solution

Upgrade the cups/cupsys packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.7-4+etch8 of cupsys.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.8-1+lenny6 of cups.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1811

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38992

File Name: debian_DSA-1811.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cupsys

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0949

CWE: 399

DSA: 1811