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GLSA: cups

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Ahlberg)
Mon Dec 30 11:34:35 2002

From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:35:18 +0100
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-Id: <20021229133433.D5EAF5764@mail2.tamperd.net>

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-13
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PACKAGE : cups
SUMMARY : multiple cups vulnerbilities
DATE    : 2002-12-29 13:12 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote and local

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- From iDEFENSE advisory:

"Exploitation of multiple CUPS vulnerabilities allow local and remote 
attackers in the worst of the scenarios to gain root privileges."

Read the full advisory at
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-print/cups-1.1.17_pre20021025 or earlier update their systems as 
follows:

emerge rsync
emerge cups
emerge clean

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