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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2562-1 (cups-pk-helper)
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-pk-helper announced via advisory DSA 2562-1.
Insight
Insight
cups-pk-helper, a PolicyKit helper to configure cups with fine-grained privileges, wraps CUPS function calls in an insecure way. This could lead to uploading sensitive data to a cups resource, or overwriting specific files with the content of a cups resource. The user would have to explicitly approve the action. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.0-3. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.3-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your cups-pk-helper packages.