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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-2131 (cups)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: cups-1.3.6-4.fc8 | |
| Date: | Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:13:24 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200804090522.m395LSqG032038@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2131 2008-04-08 23:35:45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : cups Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.3.6 Release : 4.fc8 URL : http://www.cups.org/ Summary : Common Unix Printing System Description : The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX? operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Two security issues have been fixed in this update: * A buffer overflow when processing GIF files * A heap-based overflow in a CUPS helper program, used for searching documentation This update also fixes a problem with processing some JPEG files. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Apr 1 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.6-4 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2008-1373 (GIF overflow, bug #438303). - Applied patch to prevent heap-based buffer overflow in CUPS helper program (bug #436153, CVE-2008-0047, STR #2729). * Thu Feb 28 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1.3.6-3 - Apply upstream fix for Adobe JPEG files (bug #166460, STR #2727). * Sat Feb 23 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1.3.6-2 - Fix encoding of job-sheets option (bug #433753, STR #2715). * Wed Feb 20 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1.3.6-1 - 1.3.6. No longer need str2650, str2664, or str2703 patches. * Tue Feb 12 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1.3.5-3 - Fixed admin.cgi handling of DefaultAuthType (bug #432478, STR #2703). * Mon Jan 21 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1.3.5-2 - Rebuilt. * Thu Jan 10 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - Apply patch to fix busy looping in the backends (bug #426653, STR #2664). * Wed Jan 9 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - Apply patch to prevent overlong PPD lines from causing failures except in strict mode (bug #405061). Needed for compatibility with older versions of foomatic (e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4). - Applied upstream patch to fix cupsctl --remote-any (bug #421411, STR #2650). * Thu Jan 3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1.3.5-1 - 1.3.5. No longer need str2600, CVE-2007-4352,5392,5393 patches. - Efficiency fix for pstoraster (bug #416871). * Fri Nov 30 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - CVE-2007-4045 patch is not necessarily because cupsd_client_t objects are not moved in array operations, only pointers to them. * Tue Nov 27 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - Updated to improved dnssd backend from Till Kamppeter. - Don't undo the util.c parts of STR #2537. * Tue Nov 20 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.4-4 - Added fix for STR #2600 in which cupsd can crash from a NULL dereference with LogLevel debug2 (bug #385631). * Mon Nov 12 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.4-3 - Fixed CVE-2007-4045 patch; has no effect with shipped packages since they are linked with gnutls. - Temporarily undo STR #2537 change so that non-UTF-8 requests are not rejected (bug #378211). - LSPP cupsdSetString/ClearString fixes (bug #378451). * Wed Nov 7 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.4-2 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4045 (bug #250161). - Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392 and CVE-2007-5393 (bug #345101). * Thu Nov 1 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.4-1 - 1.3.4 (bug #362971). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #436153 - CVE-2008-0047 cups: heap based buffer overflow in cgiCompileSearch() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436153 [ 2 ] Bug #438303 - CVE-2008-1373 cups: overflow in gif image filter https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438303 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update cups' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...
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