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PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 4:08 am    Post subject: [gentoo-security] GLSA: cups Reply with quote

Daniel Ahlberg wrote:
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-13
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PACKAGE : cups
SUMMARY : multiple cups vulnerbilities
DATE : 2002-12-29 13:12 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote and local

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- From iDEFENSE advisory:

"Exploitation of multiple CUPS vulnerabilities allow local and remote
attackers in the worst of the scenarios to gain root privileges."

Read the full advisory at
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-print/cups-1.1.17_pre20021025 or earlier update their systems as
follows:

emerge rsync
emerge cups
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
lordvan@gentoo.org
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