Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0577 - Numeric Errors vulnerability in Apple Cups 1.1.17
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Integer overflow in the WriteProlog function in texttops in CUPS 1.1.17 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PostScript file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3640.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2009-0308.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:0308 : Updated cups packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Common UNIX(r) Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems. The CUPS security advisory, RHSA-2008:0937, stated that it fixed CVE-2008-3640 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. It was discovered this flaw was not properly fixed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, however. (CVE-2009-0577) These new packages contain a proper fix for CVE-2008-3640 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 already contain the appropriate fix for this flaw and do not need to be updated. Users of cups should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67808 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67808 title Oracle Linux 3 : cups (ELSA-2009-0308) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2009-0308.NASL description Updated cups packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Common UNIX(r) Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems. The CUPS security advisory, RHSA-2008:0937, stated that it fixed CVE-2008-3640 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. It was discovered this flaw was not properly fixed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, however. (CVE-2009-0577) These new packages contain a proper fix for CVE-2008-3640 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 already contain the appropriate fix for this flaw and do not need to be updated. Users of cups should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35719 published 2009-02-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35719 title CentOS 3 / 4 : cups (CESA-2009:0308) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20090219_CUPS_ON_SL3_X.NASL description The previous CUPS security advisor, stated that it fixed CVE-2008-3640 for Scientific Linux 3, 4, and 5. It was discovered this flaw was not properly fixed on Scientific Linux 3, however. (CVE-2009-0577) These new packages contain a proper fix for CVE-2008-3640 on Scientific Linux 3. Scientific Linux 4 and 5 already contain the appropriate fix for this flaw and do not need to be updated. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 60536 published 2012-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60536 title Scientific Linux Security Update : cups on SL3.x i386/x86_64 NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2008-0937.NASL description Updated cups packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(R) operating systems. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the SGI image format decoding routines used by the CUPS image converting filter last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 34375 published 2008-10-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/34375 title CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : cups (CESA-2008:0937) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-656-1.NASL description It was discovered that the SGI image filter in CUPS did not perform proper bounds checking. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted SGI image, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2008-3639) It was discovered that the texttops filter in CUPS did not properly validate page metrics. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted text file, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2008-3640) It was discovered that the HP-GL filter in CUPS did not properly check for invalid pen parameters. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted HP-GL or HP-GL/2 file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with user privileges. In Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 LTS, attackers would be isolated by the AppArmor CUPS profile. (CVE-2008-3641) NOTE: The previous update for CUPS on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS did not have the the fix for CVE-2008-1722 applied. This update includes fixes for the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 37836 published 2009-04-23 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/37836 title Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : cupsys vulnerabilities (USN-656-1) NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2008-211.NASL description A buffer overflow in the SGI image format decoding routines used by the CUPS image converting filter imagetops was discovered. An attacker could create malicious SGI image files that could possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was printed (CVE-2008-3639). An integer overflow flaw leading to a heap buffer overflow was found in the Text-to-PostScript texttops filter. An attacker could create a malicious text file that could possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was printed (CVE-2008-3640). Finally, an insufficient buffer bounds checking flaw was found in the HP-GL/2-to-PostScript hpgltops filter. An attacker could create a malicious HP-GL/2 file that could possibly execute arbitrary code if the file was printed (CVE-2008-3641). The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue; for Mandriva Linux 2009.0 the latest CUPS version (1.3.9) is provided that corrects these issues and also provides other bug fixes. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 36840 published 2009-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/36840 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : cups (MDVSA-2008:211) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2008-0937.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0937 : Updated cups packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(R) operating systems. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the SGI image format decoding routines used by the CUPS image converting filter last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67755 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67755 title Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : cups (ELSA-2008-0937) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0937.NASL description Updated cups packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(R) operating systems. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the SGI image format decoding routines used by the CUPS image converting filter last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 34384 published 2008-10-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/34384 title RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : cups (RHSA-2008:0937) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2009-0308.NASL description Updated cups packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Common UNIX(r) Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems. The CUPS security advisory, RHSA-2008:0937, stated that it fixed CVE-2008-3640 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. It was discovered this flaw was not properly fixed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, however. (CVE-2009-0577) These new packages contain a proper fix for CVE-2008-3640 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 already contain the appropriate fix for this flaw and do not need to be updated. Users of cups should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35722 published 2009-02-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35722 title RHEL 3 : cups (RHSA-2009:0308)
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| accepted | 2013-04-29T04:23:45.983-04:00 | ||||||||
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| description | Integer overflow in the WriteProlog function in texttops in CUPS 1.1.17 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PostScript file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3640. | ||||||||
| family | unix | ||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9968 | ||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||
| submitted | 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 | ||||||||
| title | Integer overflow in the WriteProlog function in texttops in CUPS 1.1.17 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PostScript file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3640. | ||||||||
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486052
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0308.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33995
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-064.htm
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48977
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9968