| Package | cups |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.5.3-5+deb7u9 |
| Related CVEs | CVE-2018-4180 CVE-2018-4181 CVE-2018-6553 |
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System. These issues have been identified with the following CVE ids:
CVE-2018-4180
Dan Bastone of Gotham Digital Science discovered that a local
attacker with access to cupsctl could escalate privileges by setting
an environment variable.
CVE-2018-4181
Eric Rafaloff and John Dunlap of Gotham Digital Science discovered
that a local attacker can perform limited reads of arbitrary files
as root by manipulating cupsd.conf.
CVE-2018-6553
Dan Bastone of Gotham Digital Science discovered that an attacker
can bypass the AppArmor cupsd sandbox by invoking the dnssd backend
using an alternate name that has been hard linked to dnssd.
For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.3-5+deb7u9.
We recommend that you upgrade your cups packages.
Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.