- Issued:
- 2013-02-28
- Updated:
- 2013-02-28
RHSA-2013:0580 - Moderate: cups security update
Synopsis
Moderate: cups security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory Moderate
Topic
Updated cups packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate 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 Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.
It was discovered that CUPS administrative users (members of the SystemGroups groups) who are permitted to perform CUPS configuration changes via the CUPS web interface could manipulate the CUPS configuration to gain unintended privileges. Such users could read or write arbitrary files with the privileges of the CUPS daemon, possibly allowing them to run arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2012-5519)
After installing this update, the ability to change certain CUPS configuration directives remotely will be disabled by default. The newly introduced ConfigurationChangeRestriction directive can be used to enable the changing of the restricted directives remotely. Refer to Red Hat Bugzilla bug 875898 for more details and the list of restricted directives.
All users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve 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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258
Affected Products
| Product | Version | Arch |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI) | 2.1 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise | 2.1 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support | 6.4 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support | 6.4 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support | 5.9 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support | 5.9 | ia64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support | 5.9 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian | 6 | ppc64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian | 5 | ppc |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support | 6.4 | ppc64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support | 5.9 | ppc |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems | 6 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems | 5 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support | 6.4 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support | 5.9 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation | 5 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation | 5 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | 5 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | 5 | ia64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | 5 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI | 5 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI | 5 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI | 6.4 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI | 6.4 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI | 5.9 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI | 5.9 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) | 6 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) | 6 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS | 6.4 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS | 5.9 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS | 5.9 | ia64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS | 5.9 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop | 6 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop | 6 | i386 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop | 5 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop | 5 | i386 |
Updated Packages
- cups-lpd-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.ppc64.rpm
- cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ppc.rpm
- cups-libs-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.x86_64.rpm
- cups-lpd-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.s390x.rpm
- cups-devel-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ppc64.rpm
- cups-php-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.x86_64.rpm
- cups-lpd-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.s390x.rpm
- cups-lpd-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ia64.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.x86_64.rpm
- cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ia64.rpm
- cups-lpd-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ppc.rpm
- cups-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.i686.rpm
- cups-lpd-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.x86_64.rpm
- cups-devel-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.i686.rpm
- cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.s390x.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.i686.rpm
- cups-libs-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.ppc64.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.s390x.rpm
- cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.i386.rpm
- cups-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ppc.rpm
- cups-lpd-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.x86_64.rpm
- cups-lpd-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.i686.rpm
- cups-devel-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ia64.rpm
- cups-lpd-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.i386.rpm
- cups-devel-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.s390.rpm
- cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.s390.rpm
- cups-devel-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.s390x.rpm
- cups-libs-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.i686.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.ppc64.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ppc.rpm
- cups-devel-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.i386.rpm
- cups-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.x86_64.rpm
- cups-libs-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.s390x.rpm
- cups-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.s390x.rpm
- cups-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.ppc64.rpm
- cups-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.src.rpm
- cups-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.i386.rpm
- cups-devel-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.ppc.rpm
- cups-php-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.i686.rpm
- cups-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ia64.rpm
- cups-devel-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ppc.rpm
- cups-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.src.rpm
- cups-devel-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.x86_64.rpm
- cups-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.s390x.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ia64.rpm
- cups-php-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.s390x.rpm
- cups-php-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.ppc64.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.x86_64.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.ppc.rpm
- cups-libs-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.ppc.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.s390.rpm
- cups-libs-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.s390.rpm
- cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.x86_64.rpm
- cups-devel-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.s390.rpm
- cups-devel-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.x86_64.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.s390.rpm
- cups-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.x86_64.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ppc64.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.s390x.rpm
- cups-debuginfo-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.i386.rpm
- cups-devel-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.ppc64.rpm
- cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5_9.3.ppc64.rpm
- cups-devel-1.4.2-50.el6_4.4.s390x.rpm
Fixes
CVEs
References
Additional information
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