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openSUSE Security Update : cups (openSUSE-2015-418)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 84184
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Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.Description
This update fixes the following issues :- CVE-2015-1158 and CVE-2015-1159 fixes a possible privilege escalation via cross-site scripting and bad print job submission used to replace cupsd.conf on server (CUPS STR#4609 CERT-VU-810572 CVE-2015-1158 CVE-2015-1159 bugzilla.suse.com bsc#924208). In general it is crucial to limit access to CUPS to trustworthy users who do not misuse their permission to submit print jobs which means to upload arbitrary data onto the CUPS server, see https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_and_SANE_Firewall_setti ngs and cf. the entries about CVE-2012-5519 below.
Solution
Update the affected cups packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 84184
File Name: openSUSE-2015-418.nasl
Version: 2.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 6/15/2015
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-libs-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-ddk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-ddk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cups-libs-32bit
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2015