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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : cups, cupsys vulnerability (USN-780-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39311

Synopsis

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

Description

Anibal Sacco discovered that CUPS did not properly handle certain network operations. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw and cause the CUPS server to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/780-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39311

File Name: ubuntu_USN-780-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/4/2009

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: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-bsd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcups2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2-gnutls10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcups2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsimage2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-bsd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsimage2-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0949

BID: 35169

CWE: 399

USN: 780-1