CUPS ippReadIO function buffer overflow
| cups-ippreadio-bo (38190) |  High Risk |
Description:
CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c. By sending specially-crafted textWithLanguage or nameWithLanguage tags in an IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) request, a remote attacker from within the local network could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the service to crash.
Platforms Affected:
- Apple, CUPS 1.3.3
- Apple, Mac OS X 10.4.11
- Apple, Mac OS X 10.5.1
- Apple, Mac OS X Server 10.4.11
- Apple, Mac OS X Server 10.5.1
- Canonical, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Canonical, Ubuntu 6.10
- Canonical, Ubuntu 7.04
- Canonical, Ubuntu 7.10
- Debian, Debian Linux 4.0
- Gentoo, Linux
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2007 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2007
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2007.1
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2007.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2008.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 X86_64
- Novell, OpenSUSE 10.2
- Novell, OpenSUSE 10.3
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 5 Client Workstation
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 5 Client
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 5
- SuSE, SuSE Linux 10.0
- SuSE, SuSE Linux 10.1
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 10 Server
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 10 Server x64 Ed
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 11 Server
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 11 Server x64 Ed
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux FUJI
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Multimedia
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Personal
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux wizpy
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0 Hosting Ed
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0 Workgroup Ed
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Appliance Server 2.0
Remedy:
Apply the appropriate update for your system. See References.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- Apple Web site, About Security Update 2007-009 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179.
- Apple Web site, About Security Update 2007-009 v1.1 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307224.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Dec 17 2007 - 15:47:29 CST, Apple OS X Software Update Remote Command Execution at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-12/0217.html.
- CUPS Web site, Common UNIX Printing System at http://www.cups.org/.
- Secunia Research 31/10/2007, CUPS IPP Tags Memory Corruption Vulnerability at http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-76/advisory/.
- ASA-2007-476: cups security update (RHSA-2007-1023)
- ASA-2007-498: CUPS security update (RHSA-2007-1022)
- BID-26268: CUPS IPP Tag Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-4351: Off-by-one error in the ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in CUPS 1.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) textWithLanguage or (2) nameWithLanguage Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) tag, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow.
- DSA-1407: cupsys -- buffer overflow
- GLSA-200711-16: CUPS: Memory corruption
- MDKSA-2007:204: Updated cups packages fix vulnerability
- MDKSA-2007:204-1: Updated cups packages fix vulnerability
- RHSA-2007-1020: Important: cups security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2007-1022: Important: cups security update
- RHSA-2007-1023: Important: cups security update
- SA27233: CUPS IPP Tags Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- SA28136: Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA30847: Cisco Wide Area Application Services CUPS IPP Tags Memory Corruption
- SECTRACK ID: 1018879: CUPS Buffer Overflow in ippReadIO() Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
- SUSE-SA:2007:058: cups IPP remote buffer overflow
Reported:
Oct 31, 2007
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