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USN-2293-1: CUPS vulnerability

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USN-2293-1: CUPS vulnerability

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/21/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/22/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The web interface in CUPS before 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/.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-cups

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