Issued:
2010-11-10
Updated:
2010-11-10

RHSA-2010:0866 - Important: cups security update

Synopsis

Important: cups security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated cups packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

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

An invalid free flaw was found in the way the CUPS server parsed Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) packets. A malicious user able to send IPP requests to the CUPS server could use this flaw to crash the CUPS server. (CVE-2010-2941)

Red Hat would like to thank Emmanuel Bouillon of NATO C3 Agency for reporting this issue.

Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

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 This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc.rpm
  • cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
  • cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
  • cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
  • cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.src.rpm
  • cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
  • cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
  • cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390.rpm
  • cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
  • cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
  • cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
  • cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
  • cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
  • cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
  • cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
  • cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc.rpm
  • cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
  • cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
  • cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
  • cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390.rpm
  • cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
  • cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
  • cups-lpd-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
  • cups-devel-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
  • cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
  • cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390.rpm
  • cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
  • cups-php-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
  • cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
  • cups-libs-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc.rpm
  • cups-1.4.2-35.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm

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