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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: cups security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0866-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0866.html
Issue date: 2010-11-10
CVE Names: CVE-2010-2941
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1. Summary:
Updated cups packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the
CVE link in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
3. Description:
The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer
for UNIX operating systems.
An invalid free flaw was found in the way the CUPS server parsed Internet
Printing Protocol (IPP) packets. A malicious user able to send IPP requests
to the CUPS server could use this flaw to crash the CUPS server.
(CVE-2010-2941)
Red Hat would like to thank Emmanuel Bouillon of NATO C3 Agency for
reporting this issue.
Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this
update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.
4. Solution:
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
624438 - CVE-2010-2941 cups: cupsd memory corruption vulnerability
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.src.rpm
i386:
cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
x86_64:
cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.src.rpm
i386:
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
x86_64:
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6ComputeNode/en/os/SRPMS/cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6ComputeNode/en/os/SRPMS/cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.src.rpm
i386:
cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
ppc64:
cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.src.rpm
i386:
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
ppc64:
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.src.rpm
i386:
cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
x86_64:
cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.src.rpm
i386:
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
x86_64:
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
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7. References:
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-2941.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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