[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: cups-1.2.12-10.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2897
2008-04-08 23:37:22
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Name        : cups
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 1.2.12
Release     : 10.fc7
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.

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Update Information:

Three security issues have been fixed in this update:    * A buffer overflow
when processing GIF files  * A heap-based overflow in a CUPS helper program,
used for searching documentation  * A buffer overflow when processing HP-GL/2
files
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr  1 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-10
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2008-1373 (GIF overflow, bug #438303).
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2008-0053 (HP-GL/2 input processing, bug #438117).
- Applied patch to prevent heap-based buffer overflow in CUPS helper
  program (bug #436153, CVE-2008-0047, STR #2729).
* Fri Feb 22 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-9
- Prevent double-free when a browsed class has the same name as a printer
  or vice versa (CVE-2008-0882, bug #433758, STR #2656).
* Mon Nov 12 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-8
- Fixed CVE-2007-4045 patch; has no effect with shipped packages since they
  are linked with gnutls.
- LSPP fixes (cupsdSetString/ClearString).
* Wed Nov  7 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-7
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4045 (bug #250161).
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392 and
  CVE-2007-5393 (bug #345101).
* Thu Nov  1 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-6
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4351 (STR #2561, bug #361661).
* Wed Oct 10 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-5
- Use ppdev for parallel port Device ID retrieval (bug #311671).
* Thu Aug  9 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-4
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-3387 (bug #251518).
* Tue Jul 31 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-3
- Better buildroot tag.
- Moved LSPP access check and security attributes check in add_job() to
  before allocation of the job structure (bug #231522).
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-2
- Use kernel support for USB paper-out detection, when available
  (bug #249213).
* Fri Jul 13 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.12-1
- 1.2.12.  No longer need adminutil or str2408 patches.
* Wed Jul  4 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.11-3
- Better paper-out detection patch still (bug #246222).
* Fri Jun 29 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.11-2
- Applied patch to fix group handling in PPDs (bug #186231, STR #2408).
* Wed Jun 27 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.11-1
- Fixed permissions on classes.conf in the file manifest (bug #245748).
- 1.2.11.
* Tue Jun 12 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- Make the initscript use start priority 56 (bug #213828).
* Mon Jun 11 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.10-12
- Better paper-out detection patch (bug #241589).
* Mon May 21 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.2.10-11
- Fixed _cupsAdminSetServerSettings() sharing/shared handling (bug #238057).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #438117 - CVE-2008-0053 cups: buffer overflows in HP-GL/2 filter
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438117
  [ 2 ] Bug #436153 - CVE-2008-0047 cups: heap based buffer overflow in cgiCompileSearch()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436153
  [ 3 ] Bug #438303 - CVE-2008-1373 cups: overflow in gif image filter
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438303
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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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