[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: cups-1.4.4-11.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-17641
2010-11-11 21:40:56
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Name        : cups
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 1.4.4
Release     : 11.fc14
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.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a cupsd memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2010-2941), as well as fixing a crash when the MIME database cannot be loaded for any reason.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 11 2010 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.4.4-11
- Applied patch to fix cupsd memory corruption vulnerability
  (CVE-2010-2941, bug #652161).
- Don't crash when MIME database could not be loaded (bug #610088).
* Wed Sep 29 2010 jkeating - 1:1.4.4-10.1
- Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #624438 - CVE-2010-2941 cups: cupsd memory corruption vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624438
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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/.

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