RHSA-2007:1020 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated CUPS packages that fix a security issue in the Internet Printing
Protocol (IPP) handling and correct some bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Description

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer
for UNIX(R) operating systems.

A flaw was found in the way CUPS handles certain Internet Printing Protocol
(IPP) tags. A remote attacker who is able to connect to the IPP TCP port
could send a malicious request causing the CUPS daemon to crash, or
potentially execute arbitrary code. Please note that the default CUPS
configuration does not allow remote hosts to connect to the IPP TCP port.
(CVE-2007-4351)

Red Hat would like to thank Alin Rad Pop for reporting this issue.

All CUPS users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

In addition, the following bugs were fixed:

• the CUPS service has been changed to start after sshd, to avoid causing

delays when logging in when the system is booted.

• the logrotate settings have been adjusted so they do not cause CUPS to

reload its configuration. This is to avoid re-printing the current job,
which could occur when it was a long-running job.

• a bug has been fixed in the handling of the If-Modified-Since: HTTP

header.

• in the LSPP configuration, labels for labeled jobs did not line-wrap.

This has been fixed.

• an access check in the LSPP configuration has been made more secure.
• the cups-lpd service no longer ignores the "-odocument-format=..."

option.

• a memory allocation bug has been fixed in cupsd.
• support for UNIX domain sockets authentication without passwords has been

added.

• in the LSPP configuration, a problem that could lead to cupsd crashing

has been fixed.

• the error handling in the initscript has been improved.
• The job-originating-host-name attribute was not correctly set for jobs

submitted via the cups-lpd service. This has been fixed.

• a problem with parsing IPv6 addresses in the configuration file has been

fixed.

• a problem that could lead to cupsd crashing when it failed to open a

"file:" URI has been fixed.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 213828 - Cups starts as S55cups, before sshd
• BZ - 228107 - [LSPP] Labels for labeled printing don't linewrap
• BZ - 229673 - [LSPP] cups is overriding mls when querying jobs with lpq -al
• BZ - 230073 - cups-lpd : server-args has no effect
• BZ - 230613 - [LSPP] cups is allowing users to delete other user's job
• BZ - 231522 - [LSPP] cupsd crash
• BZ - 237953 - Wrong init script
• BZ - 240223 - cups-lpd doesn't set 'job-originating-host-name'
• BZ - 241400 - IPV6 addresses not accepted in "Allow From" directives
• BZ - 250415 - cupsd crashes when failing to open a file: URI
• BZ - 345091 - CVE-2007-4351 cups boundary error

CVEs

• CVE-2007-4351

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important