Issued:

2012-06-20

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0818 - cups bug fix update

Synopsis

cups bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated cups packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the textonly filter did not always correctly generate output when a single copy was requested. The textonly filter generates output for a single or multiple copies by spooling the output for one copy into a temporary file, then sending the content of that temporary file as many times as required. However, if the filter was used for the MIME-type conversion rather than as a PostScript Printer Description (PPD) filter, and a single copy was requested, the temporary file was not created and the program failed with the "No such file or directory" message. With this update, the textonly filter has been modified to create a temporary file regardless of the number of copies specified. The data is now sent to the printer as expected. (BZ#738410)

• Previously, empty jobs could be created using the "lp" command either by submitting an empty file to print (for example by executing "lp /dev/null") or by providing an empty file as standard input. In this way, a job was created but was never processed. With this update, creation of empty print jobs is not allowed, and the user is now informed that no file is in the request. (BZ#738914, BZ#740093)

• The German translation for the search page template of the web interface contained an error that prevented the search feature from functioning correctly: attempting to search for a printer in the CUPS web interface failed, and an error message was displayed in the browser. The bug in the search template has been fixed, and the search feature in the German locale now works as expected in this scenario. (BZ#806818)

All users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• cups-devel-1.4.2-48.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cups-libs-1.4.2-48.el6.i686.rpm
• cups-php-1.4.2-48.el6.s390x.rpm
• cups-devel-1.4.2-48.el6.i686.rpm
• cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-48.el6.ppc.rpm
• cups-lpd-1.4.2-48.el6.s390x.rpm
• cups-libs-1.4.2-48.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cups-1.4.2-48.el6.src.rpm
• cups-libs-1.4.2-48.el6.s390x.rpm
• cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-48.el6.i686.rpm
• cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-48.el6.s390.rpm
• cups-lpd-1.4.2-48.el6.i686.rpm
• cups-lpd-1.4.2-48.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cups-libs-1.4.2-48.el6.s390.rpm
• cups-php-1.4.2-48.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cups-devel-1.4.2-48.el6.ppc.rpm
• cups-lpd-1.4.2-48.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cups-1.4.2-48.el6.s390x.rpm
• cups-1.4.2-48.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cups-devel-1.4.2-48.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cups-1.4.2-48.el6.i686.rpm
• cups-libs-1.4.2-48.el6.ppc.rpm
• cups-php-1.4.2-48.el6.i686.rpm
• cups-php-1.4.2-48.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-48.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-48.el6.s390x.rpm
• cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-48.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cups-1.4.2-48.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cups-devel-1.4.2-48.el6.s390x.rpm
• cups-libs-1.4.2-48.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cups-devel-1.4.2-48.el6.s390.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 738410
• This content is not included.BZ - 738914
• This content is not included.BZ - 806818

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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