metadata/glsa/glsa-200409-25.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200409-25">
  <title>CUPS: Denial of service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability in CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
    service when sending a carefully-crafted UDP packet to the IPP port.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">CUPS</product>
  <announced>September 20, 2004</announced>
  <revised>September 21, 2004: 02</revised>
  <bug>64168</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-print/cups" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.20-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.20-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a cross-platform print spooler.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Alvaro Martinez Echevarria discovered a hole in the CUPS Internet Printing
    Protocol (IPP) implementation that allows remote attackers to cause CUPS to
    stop listening on the IPP port.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote user with malicious intent can easily cause a denial of service to
    the CUPS daemon by sending a specially-crafted UDP datagram packet to the
    IPP port.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All CUPS users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv ">=net-print/cups-1.1.20-r2"
    # emerge ">=net-print/cups-1.1.20-r2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.cups.org/str.php?L863">CUPS Software Trouble Report</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0558">CAN-2004-0558</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 19 Sep 2004 06:22:23 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:58:55 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:59:53 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
</glsa>