Executive Summary

Summary
Title CUPS update
Informations
Name USN-2839-1 First vendor Publication 2015-12-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-12-16
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

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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

A security improvement has been made to CUPS.

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

Details:

As a security improvement against the POODLE attack, this update disables SSLv3 support in the CUPS web interface.

For legacy environments where SSLv3 support is still required, it can be re-enabled by adding "SSLOptions AllowSSL3" to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
cups 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.7

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2839-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1505328

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/1.7.2-0ubuntu1.7

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2839-1

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Date Informations
2015-12-18 13:27:56
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-16 21:23:52
  • First insertion