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ESB-2002.086 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 110-1 -- New CUPS packages fix buffer overflow

Date: 20 February 2002

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            ESB-2002.086 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 110-1
                   New CUPS packages fix buffer overflow
                             20 February 2002

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:                cupsys
Vendor:                 Debian
Operating System:       Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
                        Linux
                        UNIX
Platform:               Alpha
                        ARM
                        i386
                        Motorola 680x0
                        PowerPC
                        SPARC
Impact:                 Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access Required:        Remote

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 110-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
February 13th, 2002  
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Package        : cupsys
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no

The authors of CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, have found a
potential buffer overflow bug in the code of the CUPS daemon where it
reads the names of attributes.  This affects all versions of CUPS.

This problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-10 for the stable Debian
distribution and version 1.1.13-2 for the current testing/unstable
distribution.

We recommend that you upgrade your CUPS packages immediately if you
have them installed.

wget url
	will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cupsys_1.0.4-10.dsc
      MD5 checksum: a25c80cc6d8d9b02c1aac6da4f79afcd
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cupsys_1.0.4-10.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 040a42cda4fd71731287f1af80cd9a26
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cupsys_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: d753d8b3c2506a9b97bf4f22ca53f38b

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/cupsys-bsd_1.0.4-10_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 129dd83b69ba616f2a308c644bca606a
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/cupsys_1.0.4-10_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 77f3b083a9a829655321f4d630232134
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libcupsys1-dev_1.0.4-10_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: d177a9b4304826cf465ebf486165d7d9
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libcupsys1_1.0.4-10_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 18d91000234b6ac9ab013738a4e2997c

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/cupsys-bsd_1.0.4-10_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 9364f7f3342fc4c7ab28a0d8f7e47108
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/cupsys_1.0.4-10_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: ef41e2e3e867854db2bb7ac9069660d9
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/libcupsys1-dev_1.0.4-10_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: b36d2d4acb93b2bbba26e23a900a8e29
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/libcupsys1_1.0.4-10_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: a0291efe1856e319bee493020100c960

  Intel ia32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/cupsys-bsd_1.0.4-10_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 05400bb194af07b79287a6390125b3ee
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/cupsys_1.0.4-10_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: cc857d9a2a629dd14074d4d6469fbcd3
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libcupsys1-dev_1.0.4-10_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: ef741829699442ddc5b754ac693cfd39
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libcupsys1_1.0.4-10_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: dfeafd588730f20b3b0426722e9f0ba0

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/cupsys-bsd_1.0.4-10_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 2373f3acc1d1b3863b3edd267343762f
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/cupsys_1.0.4-10_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: b3c3bf35d88b43a9d7763fd57f073439
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libcupsys1-dev_1.0.4-10_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 75c47bdf46b13356ab48e56998ae3e18
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libcupsys1_1.0.4-10_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 11455c1f532f4a226ad3d3e9c9b35b3e

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/cupsys-bsd_1.0.4-10_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 94c82948c3b9c81599c052c6193e8ff3
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/cupsys_1.0.4-10_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 1580339f4ad09db11e491819635f0c45
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/libcupsys1-dev_1.0.4-10_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 34bc8d6a65ea73ede6fe3e95a7f24027
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/libcupsys1_1.0.4-10_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 1cf8a0c28ff2911b7afdbe228c76c36e

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/cupsys-bsd_1.0.4-10_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 5e04111a502a84d6c83a4d833e15f268
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/cupsys_1.0.4-10_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 7420ecd64ff4856382a294d745063274
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/libcupsys1-dev_1.0.4-10_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 72c5761429bce20e29269fe9e1297d7b
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/libcupsys1_1.0.4-10_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: e9473dad4fa1475a0766818bab0379aa


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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