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<glsa id="200409-25">
<title>CUPS: Denial of service vulnerability</title>
<synopsis>
A vulnerability in CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service when sending a carefully-crafted UDP packet to the IPP port.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">CUPS</product>
<announced>September 20, 2004</announced>
<revised>September 21, 2004: 02</revised>
<bug>64168</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-print/cups" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.1.20-r2</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.1.20-r2</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a cross-platform print spooler.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Alvaro Martinez Echevarria discovered a hole in the CUPS Internet Printing
Protocol (IPP) implementation that allows remote attackers to cause CUPS to
stop listening on the IPP port.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote user with malicious intent can easily cause a denial of service to
the CUPS daemon by sending a specially-crafted UDP datagram packet to the
IPP port.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All CUPS users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=net-print/cups-1.1.20-r2"
# emerge ">=net-print/cups-1.1.20-r2"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://www.cups.org/str.php?L863">CUPS Software Trouble Report</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0558">CAN-2004-0558</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 19 Sep 2004 06:22:23 +0000">
lewk
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:58:55 +0000">
lewk
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:59:53 +0000">
lewk
</metadata>
</glsa>