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openSUSE Security Update : cups (cups-232)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 39941

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Specially crafted print jobs could trigger buffer overflows in the 'imagetops', 'texttops' and 'hpgltops' filters. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code on the cups server (CVE-2008-3639, CVE-2008-3640, CVE-2008-3641).

Solution

Update the affected cups packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430543

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 39941

File Name: suse_11_0_cups-081002.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-libs-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2008

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3639, CVE-2008-3640, CVE-2008-3641

CWE: 119, 189, 399