USN-6361-1: CUPS vulnerability
12 September 2023
CUPS could be made to expose sensitive information.
Releases
Packages
- cups - Common UNIX Printing System(tm)
Details
It was discovered that CUPS incorrectly authenticated certain remote
requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain
recently printed documents.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-6361-2: libcupsmime1, cups-bsd, cups-ipp-utils, libcupscgi1, libcupscgi1-dev, cups-client, cups-core-drivers, cups-common, cups-daemon, libcups2, libcupsimage2, libcupsimage2-dev, libcupsppdc1-dev, libcupsppdc1, libcups2-dev, libcupsmime1-dev, cups-ppdc, cups, cups-server-common