-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-19606 2012-12-04 03:59:36 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : cups Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.5.4 Release : 18.fc17 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:
This update addresses two security issues:
* CVE-2012-5519 (privilege escalation for users fo the CUPS SystemGroup group or via polkit) is fixed by moving certain configuration keywords into a separate file, cups-files.conf, which cannot be modified by cupsd.
* CVE-2012-6094 (configuration issue with IPv4 vs IPv6) has been fixed by dropping support for systemd socket activation via IP sockets. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Fri Jan 4 2013 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-18 - Avoid misleading error message when configuration cannot be read. - Don't enable IP-based systemd socket activation by default (bug #842365, bug #891945, CVE-2012-6094). * Thu Dec 6 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-17 - Additional fix relating to CVE-2012-5519 to avoid misleading error message about actions to take to enable file device URIs. * Tue Dec 4 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-16 - Small error handling improvements in the configuration migration script. * Mon Dec 3 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-15 - Applied additional upstream patch for CVE-2012-5519 so that the RemoteRoot keyword is recognised in the correct configuration file. * Mon Dec 3 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-14 - Fixed patch for CVE-2012-5519 so that LogFilePerm and LPDConfigFile are recognised keywords for cups-files.conf (bug #882379). * Wed Nov 28 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-13 - Fixed paths in config migration %post script. - Set default cups-files.conf filename. * Mon Nov 26 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-12 - Apply upstream fix for CVE-2012-5519 (STR #4223, bug #875898). Migrate configuration keywords as needed. * Mon Nov 5 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-11 - Apply upstream patch to stop backend spinning on failed auth (bug #873264). * Wed Oct 31 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-10 - Ensure attributes are valid UTF-8 in dbus notifier (bug #863387). * Mon Oct 29 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-9 - Removed broken cups-get-classes patch (bug #870612). * Mon Oct 22 2012 Jiri Popelka jpopelka@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-8 - Add quirk rule for Xerox Phaser 3124 (#867392) * Thu Oct 11 2012 Jiri Popelka jpopelka@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-7 - backport 2 upstream commits (r10638, r10642) - backport fixes for STR #4191, STR #4194 - backport fixes for STR #4072, STR #4124 - backport 2 upstream commits (r10572, r10573) * Thu Oct 11 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-6 - Avoid double-free crash in Avahi support (bug #863409). * Mon Oct 1 2012 Jiri Popelka jpopelka@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-5 - improved usblp-quirks.patch (bug #847923, STR #4191) * Thu Sep 20 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-4 - The cups-libs subpackage contains code distributed under the zlib license (md5.c). * Tue Sep 18 2012 Tim Waugh twaugh@redhat.com 1:1.5.2-3 - Don't use the IPP Create-Job operation, widely implemented unreliably (bug #854989). * Thu Aug 23 2012 Jiri Popelka jpopelka@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-2 - quirk handler for port reset done by new USB backend (bug #847923, STR #4155) * Thu Jul 26 2012 Jiri Popelka jpopelka@redhat.com 1:1.5.4-1 - 1.5.4 * Mon May 28 2012 Jiri Popelka jpopelka@redhat.com 1:1.5.3-2 - Buildrequire libusb1 (STR #3477) * Tue May 15 2012 Jiri Popelka jpopelka@redhat.com 1:1.5.3-1 - 1.5.3 * Wed May 9 2012 Jiri Popelka jpopelka@redhat.com 1:1.5.2-13 - Add triggers for samba4-client. (#817110) - No need to define BuildRoot and clean it in clean and install section anymore. - %defattr no longer needed in %files sections. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #875898 - CVE-2012-5519 cups: privilege escalation for users of the CUPS SystemGroup group https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875898 [ 2 ] Bug #891942 - CVE-2012-6094 cups: 'Listen localhost:631' option not honoured correctly on IPv6-enabled systems when systemd used for CUPS socket activation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891942 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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