Secunia Research: CUPS IPP Tags Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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Secunia Research 31/10/2007
- CUPS IPP Tags Memory Corruption Vulnerability -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10
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1) Affected Software
* CUPS 1.3.3.
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Moderately Critical
Impact: System Access
Where: Local network
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating
systems. It was developed by Easy Software Products and is now owned
and maintained by Apple Inc. to promote a standard printing solution.
It is the standard printing system in Mac OS X and most Linux
distributions".
Product Link:
http://www.cups.org/
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in CUPS, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
"ippReadIO()" function in cups/ipp.c when processing IPP (Internet
Printing Protocol) tags. This can be exploited to overwrite one byte
on the stack with a zero by sending an IPP request containing
specially crafted "textWithLanguage" or "nameWithLanguage" tags.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
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5) Solution
Patches for various Linux distributions should be available shortly.
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6) Time Table
16/10/2007 - Vendor notified.
22/10/2007 - vendor-sec notified.
31/10/2007 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-4351 for the vulnerability.
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10) Verification
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