Mageia alert MGASA-2018-0224 (cups)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2018-0224: Updated cups packages fix security vulnerability 
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Wed, 9 May 2018 20:33:50 +0200
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MGASA-2018-0224 - Updated cups packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 09 May 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0224.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2017-18248

Description:
CUPS before version 2.2.6 has a vulnerability in the handling of
usernames in the scheduler/ipp.c:add_job() function. A remote attacker
could exploit this by submitting a print job with an invalid UTF-8
username to cause a crash and subsequent denial of service
(CVE-2017-18248).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22877
-
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1...

SRPMS:
- 5/core/cups-2.0.4-1.5.mga5