Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-34978

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patch available.

  - OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In
    versions 2.4.16 and prior, the RSS notifier allows .. path traversal in notify-recipient-uri (e.g.,
    rss:///../job.cache), letting a remote IPP client write RSS XML bytes outside CacheDir/rss (anywhere that
    is lp-writable). In particular, because CacheDir is group-writable by default (typically root:lp and mode
    0770), the notifier (running as lp) can replace root-managed state files via temp-file + rename(). This
    PoC clobbers CacheDir/job.cache with RSS XML, and after restarting cupsd the scheduler fails to parse the
    job cache and previously queued jobs disappear. At time of publication, there are no publicly available
    patches. (CVE-2026-34978)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

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  "Debian Linux-11": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
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        "release": "11",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "cups"},
          {"reference": "cups-bsd"},
          {"reference": "cups-client"},
          {"reference": "cups-common"},
          {"reference": "cups-core-drivers"},
          {"reference": "cups-daemon"},
          {"reference": "cups-ipp-utils"},
          {"reference": "cups-ppdc"},
          {"reference": "cups-server-common"},
          {"reference": "libcups2"},
          {"reference": "libcups2-dev"},
          {"reference": "libcupsimage2"},
          {"reference": "libcupsimage2-dev"}
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      }
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  },
  "Debian Linux-12": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
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        "release": "12",
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          {"reference": "cups"},
          {"reference": "cups-bsd"},
          {"reference": "cups-client"},
          {"reference": "cups-common"},
          {"reference": "cups-core-drivers"},
          {"reference": "cups-daemon"},
          {"reference": "cups-ipp-utils"},
          {"reference": "cups-ppdc"},
          {"reference": "cups-server-common"},
          {"reference": "libcups2"},
          {"reference": "libcups2-dev"},
          {"reference": "libcupsimage2"},
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          {"reference": "cups-bsd"},
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          {"reference": "cups-core-drivers"},
          {"reference": "cups-daemon"},
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          {"reference": "cups-ppdc"},
          {"reference": "cups-server-common"},
          {"reference": "libcups2"},
          {"reference": "libcups2-dev"},
          {"reference": "libcupsimage2"},
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          {"reference": "cups-ppdc"},
          {"reference": "cups-server-common"},
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          {"reference": "cups-client"},
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          {"reference": "cups-ipptool"},
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}