SuSE 11 / 11.1 Security Update : CUPS (SAT Patch Numbers 3575 / 3576)

This updates fix several bugs, but only the security fixes are listed here : - Special IPP requests allow to crash cupsd remotely. CVE-2010-2941: CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.3 AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P: CWE-399 - A NULL pointer dereference exists in the WriteProlog function of the texttops image filte...

CVE-2010-0542: Undefined Security Weakness

The WriteProlog function in texttops.c in texttops in the Text Filter subsystem in CUPS before 1.4.4 does not check the return values of certain calloc calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference or heap memory corruption or possibly execute arbitrar...