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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2354-1 (cups)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to cups announced via advisory DSA 2354-1.
Insight
Insight
Petr Sklenar and Tomas Hoger discovered that missing input sanitising in the GIF decoder inside the Cups printing system could lead to denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution through crafted GIF files. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.8-1+lenny10. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-7+squeeze1. For the testing and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.0-8.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.