Packages
- cups - Common UNIX Printing System(tm)
Details
Rory McNamara discovered that when starting the cupsd server with a
Listen configuration item, the cupsd process fails to validate if
bind call passed. An attacker could possibly trick cupsd to perform
an arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable
access to the target.
Rory McNamara discovered that when starting the cupsd server with a
Listen configuration item, the cupsd process fails to validate if
bind call passed. An attacker could possibly trick cupsd to perform
an arbitrary chmod of the provided argument, providing world-writable
access to the target.
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 24.04 noble | cups – 2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.1 | ||
| 23.10 mantic | cups – 2.4.6-0ubuntu3.1 | ||
| 22.04 jammy | cups – 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9 | ||
| 20.04 focal | cups – 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.7 | ||
| 18.04 bionic | cups – 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.10+esm4 | ||
| 16.04 xenial | cups – 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.11+esm6 | ||
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