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Fedora alert FEDORA-2010-17641 (cups)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: cups-1.4.4-11.fc14
Date:  Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:22:25 +0000
Message-ID:  <20101116232225.1268F110D32@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-17641 2010-11-11 21:40:56 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : cups Product : Fedora 14 Version : 1.4.4 Release : 11.fc14 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: This update fixes a cupsd memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2010-2941), as well as fixing a crash when the MIME database cannot be loaded for any reason. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Nov 11 2010 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.4.4-11 - Applied patch to fix cupsd memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2010-2941, bug #652161). - Don't crash when MIME database could not be loaded (bug #610088). * Wed Sep 29 2010 jkeating - 1:1.4.4-10.1 - Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #624438 - CVE-2010-2941 cups: cupsd memory corruption vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624438 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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