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cups: buffer overflows

Package(s):cups CVE #(s):CVE-2008-0053 CVE-2008-1373
Created:April 1, 2008 Updated:October 16, 2008
Description: Two overflows were discovered in the HP-GL/2-to-PostScript filter. An attacker could create a malicious HP-GL/2 file that could possibly execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file is printed. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the GIF decoding routines used by CUPS image converting filters "imagetops" and "imagetoraster". An attacker could create a malicious GIF file that could possibly execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8844 2008-10-16
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8801 2008-10-16
Debian DSA-1625-1 2008-08-01
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2131 2008-04-08
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2897 2008-04-08
rPath rPSA-2008-0136-1 2008-04-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:020 2008-04-04
Ubuntu USN-598-1 2008-04-02
Slackware SSA:2008-094-01 2008-04-03
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:081 2007-04-02
Gentoo 200804-01 2008-04-01
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0206-01 2008-04-01
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0192-01 2008-04-01

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