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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2876-1 (cups - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the pdftoopvp CUPS filter, which could result in the execution of aribitrary code if a malformed PDF file is processed.
Affected Software
Affected Software
cups on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.4-7+squeeze4. For the stable distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid) the filter is now part of the cups-filters source package. We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.