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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-8844 (cups)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: cups-1.3.9-1.fc9
Date:  Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:08:34 +0000
Message-ID:  <20081016020834.E5CC020896E@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-8844 2008-10-16 00:45:07 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : cups Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.3.9 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.cups.org/ Summary : Common Unix Printing System Description : The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Security release. This updates to 1.3.9 and fixes three integer overflows in the CUPS text and image filters. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Oct 10 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.9-1 - 1.3.9, including fixes for CVE-2008-3639 / STR #2918, CVE-2008-3640 / STR #2919 and CVE-2008-3641 / STR #2911 (bug #466419). - No longer need str2892 or res_init patches. * Wed Sep 10 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - Backported patch for FatalErrors configuration directive (bug #314941, STR #2536). * Wed Sep 3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - The dnssd backend uses avahi-browse so require it (bug #458565). - cups-polld: reinit the resolver if we haven't yet resolved the hostname (bug #354071). * Tue Aug 5 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.8-2 - Mark template files config(noreplace) for site-local modifications (bug #441719). * Sun Aug 3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.8-1 - 1.3.8. - Applied patch to fix STR #2892 (bug #453610). - Removed autoconf requirement by applying autoconf-generated changes to patches that caused them. Affected patches: cups-lspp. - CVE-2008-1373 patch is no longer needed (applied upstream). - Mark HTML files and templates config(noreplace) for site-local modifications (bug #441719). - The cups-devel package requires zlib-devel (bug #455192). * Tue Jul 1 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-8 - Fixed bug #447200 again. * Tue Jun 17 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - Don't overwrite the upstream snmp.conf file. * Tue Jun 17 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-7 - Backported cupsGetNamedDest from 1.4 (bug #428086). - Fixed bug #447200 again. * Tue Jun 3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-6 - Applied patch to fix STR #2750 (IPP authentication). * Fri May 30 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-5 - Better fix for cupsdTimeoutJob LSPP configuration suggested by Matt Anderson (bug #447200). * Thu May 29 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-4 - Fix last fix (bug #447200). * Wed May 28 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-3 - If cupsdTimeoutJob is called when the originating connection is still known, pass that to the function so that copy_banner can get at it if necessary (bug #447200). * Fri May 9 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-2 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2008-1722 (integer overflow in image filter, bug #441692, STR #2790). * Thu Apr 3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - Main package requires exactly-matching libs package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #464710 - CVE-2008-3639 CUPS: SGI image parser heap-based buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464710 [ 2 ] Bug #464713 - CVE-2008-3640 CUPS: texttops integer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464713 [ 3 ] Bug #464716 - CVE-2008-3641 CUPS: HP/GL reader insufficient bounds checking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464716 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update cups' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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