Executive Summary

Summary
Title CUPS vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-906-1 First vendor Publication 2010-03-03
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2010-03-03
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:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

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

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
cupsys 1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06.17
cupsys-client 1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06.17

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
cupsys 1.3.7-1ubuntu3.8
cupsys-client 1.3.7-1ubuntu3.8

Ubuntu 8.10:
cups 1.3.9-2ubuntu9.5
cups-client 1.3.9-2ubuntu9.5

Ubuntu 9.04:
cups 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.6
cups-client 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.6

Ubuntu 9.10:
cups 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.4
cups-client 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.4

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that the CUPS scheduler did not properly handle certain network operations. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw and cause the CUPS server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2009-3553, CVE-2010-0302)

Ronald Volgers discovered that the CUPS lppasswd tool could be made to load localized message strings from arbitrary files by setting an environment variable. A local attacker could exploit this with a format-string vulnerability leading to a root privilege escalation. The default compiler options for Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 should reduce this vulnerability to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0393)

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-906-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-416 Use After Free
33 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11183
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11183
Title: Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS 1.3.7 and 1.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS 1.3.7 and 1.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-3553
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11216
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11216
Title: Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS before 1.4.4, when kqueue or epoll is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553.
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS before 1.4.4, when kqueue or epoll is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2010-0302
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13070
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13070
Title: DSA-2007-1 cups -- format string vulnerability
Description: Ronald Volgers discovered that the lppasswd component of the cups suite, the Common UNIX Printing System, is vulnerable to format string attacks due to insecure use of the LOCALEDIR environment variable. An attacker can abuse this behaviour to execute arbitrary code via crafted localization files and triggering calls to _cupsLangprintf. This works as the lppasswd binary happens to be installed with setuid 0 permissions. For the stable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.8-1+lenny8. For the testing distribution this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.2-9.1. We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2007-1
CVE-2010-0393
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
 Product(s): cups
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13273
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13273
Title: USN-906-1 -- cups, cupsys vulnerabilities
Description: It was discovered that the CUPS scheduler did not properly handle certain network operations. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw and cause the CUPS server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10. Ronald Volgers discovered that the CUPS lppasswd tool could be made to load localized message strings from arbitrary files by setting an environment variable. A local attacker could exploit this with a format-string vulnerability leading to a root privilege escalation. The default compiler options for Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 should reduce this vulnerability to a denial of service
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-906-1
CVE-2009-3553
CVE-2010-0302
CVE-2010-0393
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 9.04
 Product(s): cups
cupsys
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22030
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22030
Title: RHSA-2010:0129: cups security update (Moderate)
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS before 1.4.4, when kqueue or epoll is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2010:0129-01
CESA-2010:0129
CVE-2010-0302
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
 Product(s): cups
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22727
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22727
Title: ELSA-2009:1595: cups security update (Moderate)
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS 1.3.7 and 1.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2009:1595-02
CVE-2009-2820
CVE-2009-3553
 Version: 13
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): cups
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22958
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22958
Title: ELSA-2010:0129: cups security update (Moderate)
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS before 1.4.4, when kqueue or epoll is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2010:0129-01
CVE-2010-0302
 Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): cups
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28031
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28031
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2010-0129 -- cups security update (moderate)
Description: [1:1.3.7-11:.6] - Applied patch for CVE-2010-0302 (incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553, bug #557775).
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2010-0129
CVE-2010-0302
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): cups
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7234
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7234
Title: DSA-2007 cups -- format string vulnerability
Description: Ronald Volgers discovered that the lppasswd component of the cups suite, the Common UNIX Printing System, is vulnerable to format string attacks due to insecure use of the LOCALEDIR environment variable. An attacker can abuse this behaviour to execute arbitrary code via crafted localization files and triggering calls to _cupsLangprintf. This works as the lppasswd binary happens to be installed with setuid 0 permissions.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2007
CVE-2010-0393
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
 Product(s): cups
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 91
Application 2
Os 72
Os 67
Os 5
Os 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-08-10 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201207-10 (cups)
File : nvt/glsa_201207_10.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for cups CESA-2009:1595 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_1595_cups_centos5_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for cups CESA-2010:0129 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2010_0129_cups_centos5_i386.nasl
2011-03-09 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2176-1 (cups)
File : nvt/deb_2176_1.nasl
2010-11-23 Name : Fedora Update for cups FEDORA-2010-17627
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_17627_cups_fc12.nasl
2010-11-23 Name : Fedora Update for cups FEDORA-2010-17615
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_17615_cups_fc13.nasl
2010-07-30 Name : Fedora Update for cups FEDORA-2010-10101
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_10101_cups_fc12.nasl
2010-07-02 Name : Fedora Update for cups FEDORA-2010-10388
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_10388_cups_fc13.nasl
2010-06-28 Name : Fedora Update for cups FEDORA-2010-10066
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_10066_cups_fc11.nasl
2010-05-12 Name : Mac OS X 10.6.3 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2010-002
File : nvt/macosx_upd_10_6_3_secupd_2010-002.nasl
2010-04-16 Name : Mandriva Update for cups MDVSA-2010:073-1 (cups)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_073_1.nasl
2010-04-16 Name : Mandriva Update for cups MDVSA-2010:073 (cups)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_073.nasl
2010-04-06 Name : Mac OS X Security Update 2010-001
File : nvt/macosx_secupd_2010-001.nasl
2010-03-22 Name : Fedora Update for cups FEDORA-2010-2743
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_2743_cups_fc11.nasl
2010-03-16 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2007-1 (cups)
File : nvt/deb_2007_1.nasl
2010-03-12 Name : Fedora Update for cups FEDORA-2010-3761
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_3761_cups_fc12.nasl
2010-03-10 Name : CUPS 'lppasswd' Tool Localized Message String Security Bypass Vulnerability
File : nvt/gb_cups_lppasswd_sec_bypass_vuln.nasl
2010-03-10 Name : CUPS 'scheduler/select.c' Denial Of Service Vulnerability
File : nvt/gb_cups_cupsdDoSelect_dos_vuln.nasl
2010-03-05 Name : RedHat Update for cups RHSA-2010:0129-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2010_0129-01_cups.nasl
2010-03-05 Name : Ubuntu Update for cups, cupsys vulnerabilities USN-906-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_906_1.nasl
2010-02-19 Name : Mandriva Update for mandriva-doc MDVA-2010:072 (mandriva-doc)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVA_2010_072.nasl
2010-02-19 Name : Mandriva Update for dhcp MDVA-2010:073 (dhcp)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVA_2010_073.nasl
2009-12-10 Name : Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-10891 (cups)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_10891.nasl
2009-12-10 Name : Fedora Core 12 FEDORA-2009-11314 (cups)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_11314.nasl
2009-12-10 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-12652 (cups)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_12652.nasl
2009-12-01 Name : CUPS File Descriptors Handling Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
File : nvt/cups_37048.nasl
2009-11-23 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1595
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_1595.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
62715 CUPS lppasswd.c _cupsGetlang Function Format String Local Privilege Escalation
60204 CUPS scheduler/select.c cupsdDoSelect() Function Use-after-free DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2010-0129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1595.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-29 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-1595.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20100303_cups_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-07-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201207-10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-03-02 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2176.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-07-08 Name : The remote printer service is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : cups_1_4_4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-07-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2010-2743.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-07-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2010-3693.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-07-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2010-3761.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-06-15 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes a security issue.
File : macosx_SecUpd2010-004.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-06-15 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_10_6_4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-04-16 Name : The remote printer service is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : cups_1_4_3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-04-15 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2010-073.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-29 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_10_6_3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-29 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2010-002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-19 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_cups-100210.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-19 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_cups-100210.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-19 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_cups-100210.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-19 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_cups-100305.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-15 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2010-0129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-04 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2010-0129.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-906-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-20 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2010-001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-27 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_cups-091210.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-27 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_cups-091210.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-11 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_cups-091204.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-12652.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-11314.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-10891.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-11-19 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-1595.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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