CUPS Browsing Can Be Disabled By Remote Users
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1011283 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1011283
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CVE Reference:
CAN-2004-0558
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Sep 15 2004
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). A remote user can disable browsing.
Debian reported that a remote user can send a sepcially crafted UDP packet containing illegal URL characters to cupsd on port 631 to cause denial of service conditions.
The flaw resides in 'scheduler/dirsvc.c'.
Alvaro Martinez Echevarria is credited with discovering and patching the flaw.
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Impact:
A remote user can disable CUPS browsing.
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Solution:
The vendor has released a fixed version (1.1.19 or later), available at:
http://www.cups.org/software.php
[Editor's note: It is not clear which version first introduced the fix, but it appears that the fix was at least included in 1.1.19 and later versions.]
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Vendor URL: www.cups.org/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Exception handling error, Input validation error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:53:29 -0400
Subject: [none]
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CVE: CAN-2004-0558
A denial of service vulnerability was reported in CUPS. A remote user can send a
sepcially crafted UDP packet to cupsd on port 631 to cause cupsd to disable browsing
in CUPS.
The flaw resides in 'scheduler/dirsvc.c'.
Alvaro Martinez Echevarria is credited with discovering and patching the flaw.
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