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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-159-1 cups -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

27 Feb 2015

Affected Packages:

cups

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9679.

More information:

Peter De Wachter discovered that CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, did not correctly parse compressed raster files. By submitting a specially crafted raster file, a remote attacker could use this vulnerability to trigger a buffer overflow.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-7+squeeze7.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.