Fedora: CUPS update fixes a denial of service problem

September 28, 2004

This update fixes a denial of service problem causing loss of browse services

Summary

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for

UNIXï¿½ 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 denial of service problem causing loss of browse services. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0558 to this issue.

In addition, this update fixes the cupsenable, cupsdisable and accept commands.

* Mon Aug 23 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.1.20-11.3

- Apply patch to fix CAN-2004-0558 (bug #130646).

* Mon Aug 16 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.1.20-11.2

- Fix cupsenable/cupsdisable/accept (bug #129864). - Added version to LPRng obsoletes: tag (bug #128024).

This update can be downloaded from:

43053868e766009625ad430adfe935df SRPMS/cups-1.1.20-11.3.src.rpm a17bc35fb4befa32cda3c01f003112fe x86_64/cups-1.1.20-11.3.x86_64.rpm 46d79527e7be77044d40bd596aa540c4 x86_64/cups-devel-1.1.20-11.3.x86_64.rpm facb9f477e3b376fd326d4b8734ff953 x86_64/cups-libs-1.1.20-11.3.x86_64.rpm 5e3f80ee8e1a31a95ec0c6125ee4d977 x86_64/debug/cups-debuginfo-1.1.20-11.3.x86_64.rpm 93c3fd2f1a873f2aa2655552fc82c099 x86_64/cups-libs-1.1.20-11.3.i386.rpm 2a7235d7f9a4eaf807b1d8f390eb64e1 i386/cups-1.1.20-11.3.i386.rpm 99886d980b9782bc6f95fb5c4459b2e1 i386/cups-devel-1.1.20-11.3.i386.rpm 93c3fd2f1a873f2aa2655552fc82c099 i386/cups-libs-1.1.20-11.3.i386.rpm 8dbf2a8c61067a7765efc6b6e1574fa8 i386/debug/cups-debuginfo-1.1.20-11.3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-275 2004-09-28 Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : cups Version : 1.1.20 Release : 11.3 Summary : Common Unix Printing System Description : The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIXï¿½ 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.