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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200409-25">
+ <title>CUPS: Denial of service vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A vulnerability in CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
+ service when sending a carefully-crafted UDP packet to the IPP port.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">CUPS</product>
+ <announced>September 20, 2004</announced>
+ <revised>September 21, 2004: 02</revised>
+ <bug>64168</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-print/cups" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.1.20-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.20-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a cross-platform print spooler.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Alvaro Martinez Echevarria discovered a hole in the CUPS Internet Printing
+ Protocol (IPP) implementation that allows remote attackers to cause CUPS to
+ stop listening on the IPP port.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote user with malicious intent can easily cause a denial of service to
+ the CUPS daemon by sending a specially-crafted UDP datagram packet to the
+ IPP port.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All CUPS users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge sync
+
+ # emerge -pv ">=net-print/cups-1.1.20-r2"
+ # emerge ">=net-print/cups-1.1.20-r2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://www.cups.org/str.php?L863">CUPS Software Trouble Report</uri>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0558">CAN-2004-0558</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 19 Sep 2004 06:22:23 +0000">
+ lewk
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:58:55 +0000">
+ lewk
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:59:53 +0000">
+ lewk
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>