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Debian DSA-2562-1 : cups-pk-helper - privilege escalation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62664

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Synopsis

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

Description

cups-pk-helper, a PolicyKit helper to configure CUPS with fine-grained privileges, wraps CUPS function calls in an insecure way. This could lead to uploading sensitive data to a CUPS resource, or overwriting specific files with the content of a CUPS resource. The user would have to explicitly approve the action.

Solution

Upgrade the cups-pk-helper packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.0-3.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/cups-pk-helper

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2562

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62664

File Name: debian_DSA-2562.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/24/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups-pk-helper, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4510

BID: 55911

DSA: 2562