news 28 Posted November 9, 2008 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] cups (SSA:2008-312-01) New cups packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3639 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3640 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3641 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ Fri Nov 7 22:23:40 CST 2008 patches/packages/cups-1.3.9-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to cups-1.3.9. This update fixes three vulnerabilities in the SGI image format filter, the texttops filter, and the HP-GL and HP-GL/2 plotter format filter. All three of these could result in a denial of service, and the plotter filter issue could possibly be used to execute code as the print spooler user. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3639 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3640 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3641 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/cups-1.3.9-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/cups-1.3.9-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/a/cups-1.3.9-i486-1.tgz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 12.0 package: 26ebf49b262c56e192eaffe3e13a4bab cups-1.3.9-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Slackware 12.1 package: 83cbf4c736362d5e9864f8694082500f cups-1.3.9-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Slackware -current package: 17130c48a822d3c0310a6ad3df138521 cups-1.3.9-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg cups-1.3.9-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz If the machine is running the CUPS server, restart it: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
