Advisories ยป MGASA-2014-0181

Updated cups-filters packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Apr 2014
Modification date: 17 Apr 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-2707

Description

Updated cups-filters packages fix security vulnerability:

Sebastian Krahmer discovered it was possible to use malicious broadcast
packets to execute arbitrary commands on a server running the cups-
browsed daemon (CVE-2014-2707).

Note that only systems that have enabled the affected feature by using
the CreateIPPPrinterQueues configuration directive in /etc/cups/cups-
browsed.conf are affected.
                

References

SRPMS

4/core