Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201510-07 First vendor Publication 2015-10-31
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2015-10-31
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in CUPS, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Background

CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System, is a full-featured print server.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cups. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All CUPS users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-print/cups-2.0.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1158 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1158
[ 2 ] CVE-2015-1159 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1159

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-07

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201510-07.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-254 Security Features
50 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2015-08-04 Apple Cups cupsd privilege escalation attempt
RuleID : 35043 - Revision : 2 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2014-11-16 Apple CUPS web interface cross site scripting attempt
RuleID : 31860 - Revision : 4 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-11-02 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201510-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-08 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-559.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-08 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2015-188-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-9801.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-9726.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-19 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-1123.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0071.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20150617_cups_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-1123.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1123.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-15 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-418.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-12 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1041-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-12 Name : The remote printer service is potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : cups_2_0_3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-11 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2629-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-239.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-10 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_a40ec9700efa11e590e4d050996490d0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3283.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2015-11-03 13:24:42
  • Multiple Updates
2015-10-31 17:23:07
  • First insertion