CVE-2018-6553 Affecting cups package, versions <1.7.5-11+deb8u4
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-CUPS-364350
- published 22 Jul 2018
- disclosed 10 Aug 2018
Introduced: 22 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-6553 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
cups
to version 1.7.5-11+deb8u4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cups
package and not the cups
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
The CUPS AppArmor profile incorrectly confined the dnssd backend due to use of hard links. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escape confinement. This flaw affects versions prior to 2.2.7-1ubuntu2.1 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, prior to 2.2.4-7ubuntu3.1 in Ubuntu 17.10, prior to 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.5 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and prior to 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.10 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6553
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4243
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00014.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-08
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6553
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3713-1