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Debian DSA-2876-1 : cups - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72991

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Synopsis

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

Description

Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the pdftoopvp CUPS filter, which could result in the execution of aribitrary code if a malformed PDF file is processed.

Solution

Upgrade the cups packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.4-7+squeeze4.

For the stable distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid) the filter is now part of the cups-filters source package.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/cups

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2876

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72991

File Name: debian_DSA-2876.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cups

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2014

Reference Information

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

DSA: 2876