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RHN Errata Alert: Moderate: cups security update



Red Hat Network has determined that the following advisory is applicable to
one or more of the systems you have registered:

Complete information about this errata can be found at the following location:
     https://rhn.redhat.com/network/errata/errata_details.pxt?eid=5466

Security Advisory - RHSA-2007:0123-8
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Summary:
Moderate: cups security update

Updated CUPS packages that fix a security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Description:
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.

References:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
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Taking Action
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You may address the issues outlined in this advisory in two ways:

     - select your server name by clicking on its name from the list
       available at the following location, and then schedule an
       errata update for it:
           https://rhn.redhat.com/network/systemlist/system_list.pxt

     - run the Update Agent on each affected server.


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Affected Systems List
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This Errata Advisory may apply to the systems listed below. If you know that
this errata does not apply to a system listed, it might be possible that the
package profile for that server is out of date. In that case you should run
'up2date -p' as root on the system in question to refresh your software profile.

There are 10 affected systems registered in 'Your RHN' (only systems for
which you have explicitly enabled Errata Alerts are shown).

Release   Arch       Profile Name
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