USN-2082-1: CUPS vulnerability

15 January 2014

CUPS could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • cups - Common UNIX Printing System(tm)

Details

Jann Horn discovered that the CUPS lppasswd tool incorrectly read a user
configuration file in certain configurations. A local attacker could use
this to read sensitive information from certain files, bypassing access
restrictions.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References