Mageia alert MGASA-2018-0147 (cups)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2018-0147: Updated cups packages fix security vulnerability 
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Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:41:40 +0100
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MGASA-2018-0147 - Updated cups packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 26 Feb 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0147.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2017-18190

Description:
Updated cups packages fix security vulnerability:

Jann Horn discovered that CUPS permitted HTTP requests with the Host header set
to "localhost.localdomain" from the loopback interface. If a user were tricked
in to opening a specially crafted website in their web browser, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information or control
printers, via a DNS rebinding attack (CVE-2017-18190).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22649
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3577-1/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1...

SRPMS:
- 5/core/cups-2.0.4-1.4.mga5