Package : cupsys Vulnerability : buffer overflows Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE IDs : CVE-2005-3191 CVE-2005-3192 CVE-2005-3193 CVE-2005-3624 CVE-2005-3625 CVE-2005-3626 CVE-2005-3627 CVE-2005-3628
"infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf which are also present in CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.14-5woody14.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.23-10sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your CUPS packages.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------