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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.62933
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:1028
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2008:1028.

The Common UNIX® Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer
for UNIX operating systems.

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap buffer overflow, was discovered
in the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) decoding routines used by the CUPS
image-converting filters, imagetops and imagetoraster. An attacker
could create a malicious PNG file that could, potentially, execute
arbitrary code as the lp user if the file was printed. (CVE-2008-5286)

CUPS users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1028.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5286
BugTraq ID: 32518
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32518
Debian Security Information: DSA-1677 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1677
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-01.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-11.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:028
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:029
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/01/1
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10058
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1028.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021298
http://secunia.com/advisories/32962
http://secunia.com/advisories/33101
http://secunia.com/advisories/33111
http://secunia.com/advisories/33568
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:002 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3315
XForce ISS Database: cups-cupsimagereadpng-overflow(46933)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46933
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