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Oracle Linux 3 : cups (ELSA-2008-0153)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 67658
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Synopsis
The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0153 :Updated cups packages that fixes two security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(R) operating systems.
A flaw was found in the way CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. A remote attacker could send malicious UDP IPP packets causing the CUPS daemon to attempt to dereference already freed memory and crash. (CVE-2008-0597)
A memory management flaw was found in the way CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. When shared printer was removed, allocated memory was not properly freed, leading to a memory leak possibly causing CUPS daemon crash after exhausting available memory. (CVE-2008-0596)
These issues were found during the investigation of CVE-2008-0882, which did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
Note that the default configuration of CUPS on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 allow requests of this type only from the local subnet.
In addition, these updated cups packages fix a bug that occurred when using the CUPS polling daemon. Excessive debugging log information was saved to the error_log file regardless of the LogLevel setting, which filled up disk space rapidly.
All CUPS users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve this issue.
Solution
Update the affected cups packages.See Also
https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-February/000524.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 67658
File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0153.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 7/12/2013
Updated: 1/14/2021
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:3, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-libs
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2008
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-0596, CVE-2008-0597
BID: 27988