Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: cups security update

Updated cups packages that fix denial of service issues, a security information leak, as well as other various bugs are now available. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a print spooler. During a source code audit, Chris Evans discovered a number of integer overflow bugs that affect xpdf. CU...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2004:116)

Chris Evans discovered numerous vulnerabilities in the xpdf package, which also effect software using embedded xpdf code : Multiple integer overflow issues affecting xpdf-2.0 and xpdf-3.0. Also programs like cups which have embedded versions of xpdf. These can result in writing an arbitrary byte ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDKSA-2003:001)

iDefense reported several security problems in CUPS that can lead to local and remote root compromise. An integer overflow in the HTTP interface can be used to gain remote access with CUPS privilege. A local file race condition can be used to gain root privilege, although the previous bug must be...

CVE-2002-1366

Common Unix Printing System CUPS 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows local users with lp privileges to create or overwrite arbitrary files via file race conditions, as demonstrated by ice-cream...