Gentoo alert 200306-09 (cups)

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Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
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gentoo-announce@gentoo.org
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GLSA:  cups (200306-09)
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Sat, 14 Jun 2003 23:01:13 +0200

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-09
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          PACKAGE : cups
          SUMMARY : Denial of service
             DATE : 2003-06-14 21:01 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <cups-1.1.18-r5
    FIXED VERSION : >=cups-1.1.18-r5
              CVE : CAN-2003-0195

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CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a partial 
printing request to the IPP port (631), which does not time out. 

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-print/cups upgrade to cups-1.1.18-r5 as follows

emerge sync
emerge cups
emerge clean

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