[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: cups-1.7.5-15.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-2127
2015-02-17 04:43:42
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Name        : cups
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 1.7.5
Release     : 15.fc21
URL         : http://www.cups.org/
Summary     : CUPS printing system
Description :
CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for
UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Apple Inc.
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 CVE-2014-9679, a buffer overflow when handling CUPS Raster format.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Feb 16 2015 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> - 1:1.7.5-15
- Apply upstream patch to fix CVE-2014-9679, cupsRasterReadPixels
  buffer overflow (STR #4551, bug #1191591).
* Thu Nov  6 2014 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> - 1:1.7.5-14
- Fixed some warnings in cups-lspp.patch.
- New systemd journal fields CUPS_DEST and CUPS_PRINTER, as well as
  accurate code location fields.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1191588 - CVE-2014-9679 cups: cupsRasterReadPixels buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191588
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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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