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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : cups vulnerabilities (USN-2144-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72979

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Synopsis

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

Description

Florian Weimer discovered that the pdftoopvp filter bundled in the CUPS package incorrectly handled memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the lp user. (CVE-2013-6474, CVE-2013-6475)

Florian Weimer discovered that the pdftoopvp filter bundled in the CUPS package did not restrict driver directories. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the lp user. (CVE-2013-6476).

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 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2144-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72979

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2144-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2014

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cups, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6474, CVE-2013-6475, CVE-2013-6476

USN: 2144-1