Advisories » MGASA-2014-0021

Updated cups packages fix a security vulverability

Publication date: 21 Jan 2014
Modification date: 21 Jan 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3
CVE: CVE-2013-6891

Description

Updated cups packages fix security vulnerability:

Jann Horn discovered that the CUPS lppasswd tool incorrectly read a user
configuration file in certain configurations. A local attacker could use
this to read sensitive information from certain files, bypassing access
restrictions (CVE-2013-6891).
                

References

• http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4319
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2082-1/
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12257
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6891

SRPMS

3/core

• cups-1.5.4-9.1.mga3