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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3283-1 cups -- security update

Date Reported:

09 Jun 2015

Affected Packages:

cups

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-1158, CVE-2015-1159.

More information:

It was discovered that CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, is vulnerable to a remotely triggerable privilege escalation via cross-site scripting and bad print job submission used to replace cupsd.conf on the CUPS server.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.5-11+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.5-12.

We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.