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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58889
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0123
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2007:0123.

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

A bug was found in the way CUPS handled SSL negotiation. A remote user
capable of connecting to the CUPS daemon could cause a denial of service to
other CUPS users. (CVE-2007-0720)

All users of CUPS should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
a backported patch introducing a timeout, which prevents connections being
kept open for an arbitrarily long time.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0123.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-0720
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
BugTraq ID: 22948
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22948
BugTraq ID: 23127
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23127
Bugtraq: 20070325 FLEA-2007-0003-1: cups (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/463846/100/0/threaded
Cert/CC Advisory: TA07-072A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2785
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-28.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:086
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232243
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11046
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0123.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017750
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
http://secunia.com/advisories/24517
http://secunia.com/advisories/24530
http://secunia.com/advisories/24660
http://secunia.com/advisories/24878
http://secunia.com/advisories/24895
http://secunia.com/advisories/25119
http://secunia.com/advisories/25497
http://secunia.com/advisories/26083
http://secunia.com/advisories/26413
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:009 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_9_sr.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:014 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0949
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