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Fedora 17 : cups-1.5.4-18.fc17 (2012-19606)

high Nessus Plugin ID 64882

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses two security issues :

 - CVE-2012-5519 (privilege escalation for users for the CUPS SystemGroup group or via polkit) is fixed by moving certain configuration keywords into a separate file, cups-files.conf, which cannot be modified by cupsd.

 - CVE-2012-6094 (configuration issue with IPv4 vs IPv6) has been fixed by dropping support for systemd socket activation via IP sockets.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected cups package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875898

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891942

http://www.nessus.org/u?0eb637bd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 64882

File Name: fedora_2012-19606.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cups, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5519, CVE-2012-6094

BID: 56494, 57158

FEDORA: 2012-19606