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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-5029: cups incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3537

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-5029: cups incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3537

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/29/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

The web interface in CUPS 1.7.4 allows local users in the lp group to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /var/cache/cups/rss/ and language[0] set to null. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3537.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-cups

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