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cups: privilege escalation

Package(s):cups, cupsys CVE #(s):CVE-2012-5519
Created:December 6, 2012 Updated:March 11, 2013
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

It was discovered that users in the lpadmin group could modify certain CUPS configuration options to escalate privileges. An attacker could use this to potentially gain root privileges.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1654-1 2012-12-05
Mageia MGASA-2012-0359 2012-12-11
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:179 2012-12-12
Debian DSA-2600-1 2013-01-06
Fedora FEDORA-2012-19606 2013-02-26
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0580-01 2013-02-28
CentOS CESA-2013:0580 2013-03-01
Oracle ELSA-2013-0580 2013-02-28
Scientific Linux SL-cups-20130228 2013-02-28
Oracle ELSA-2013-0580 2013-03-01
CentOS CESA-2013:0580 2013-03-09
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