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Ubuntu 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : cups vulnerability (USN-2082-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 71990

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Jann Horn discovered that the CUPS lppasswd tool incorrectly read a user configuration file in certain configurations. A local attacker could use this to read sensitive information from certain files, bypassing access restrictions.

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

Solution

Update the affected cups-client package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2082-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 71990

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2082-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/16/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups-client, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6891

USN: 2082-1