Executive Summary

Summary
Title CUPS vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2293-1 First vendor Publication 2014-07-21
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-07-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 1.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 1.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

CUPS could be made to expose sensitive information, leading to privilege escalation.

Software Description: - cups: Common UNIX Printing System(tm)

Details:

Francisco Alonso discovered that the CUPS web interface incorrectly validated permissions on rss files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass file permissions and read arbitrary files, possibly leading to a privilege escalation.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
cups 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
cups 1.5.3-0ubuntu8.4

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.12

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2293-1
CVE-2014-3537

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/1.5.3-0ubuntu8.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/1.4.3-1ubuntu1.12

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2293-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26078
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26078
Title: USN-2293-1 -- cups vulnerability
Description: CUPS could be made to expose sensitive information, leading to privilege escalation.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2293-1
CVE-2014-3537
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): cups
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 116
Os 3
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-108.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-22.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-26 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2014-0035.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-12 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2014-1388.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-04 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20141014_cups_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-03 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-438.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-17 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-1388.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-17 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes multiple vulnerabilit...
File : macosx_10_10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-14 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2014-1388.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-9703.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-15 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_cups-140729.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-12 Name : The remote print service is potentially affected by an information disclosure...
File : cups_1_7_5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-07 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-151.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-31 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-8752.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-31 Name : The remote print service is potentially affected by an information disclosure...
File : cups_1_7_4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2990.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-22 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2293-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-8351.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-07-23 21:29:24
  • Multiple Updates
2014-07-23 13:25:15
  • Multiple Updates
2014-07-21 21:22:19
  • First insertion