-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-0322 2008-01-27 06:41:09 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : cups Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.3.5 Release : 2.fc8 URL : http://www.cups.org/ Summary : Common Unix Printing System Description : The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This updates cups to the latest stable release, and fixes: * a busy-looping problem with backends * a PPD parsing failure * failure of 'cupsctl --remote- any' to have any effect This version addresses issue known as CVE-2007-5849, which is not really a security issue (see #415131). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jan 21 2008 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.3.5-2 - Rebuilt. * Thu Jan 10 2008 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Apply patch to fix busy looping in the backends (bug #426653, STR #2664). * Wed Jan 9 2008 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Apply patch to prevent overlong PPD lines from causing failures except in strict mode (bug #405061). Needed for compatibility with older versions of foomatic (e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4). - Applied upstream patch to fix cupsctl --remote-any (bug #421411, STR #2650). * Thu Jan 3 2008 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.3.5-1 - 1.3.5. No longer need str2600, CVE-2007-4352,5392,5393 patches. - Efficiency fix for pstoraster (bug #416871). * Fri Nov 30 2007 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - CVE-2007-4045 patch is not necessarily because cupsd_client_t objects are not moved in array operations, only pointers to them. * Tue Nov 27 2007 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Updated to improved dnssd backend from Till Kamppeter. - Don't undo the util.c parts of STR #2537. * Tue Nov 20 2007 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1:1.3.4-4 - Added fix for STR #2600 in which cupsd can crash from a NULL dereference with LogLevel debug2 (bug #385631). * Mon Nov 12 2007 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1:1.3.4-3 - Fixed CVE-2007-4045 patch; has no effect with shipped packages since they are linked with gnutls. - Temporarily undo STR #2537 change so that non-UTF-8 requests are not rejected (bug #378211). - LSPP cupsdSetString/ClearString fixes (bug #378451). * Wed Nov 7 2007 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1:1.3.4-2 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4045 (bug #250161). - Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392 and CVE-2007-5393 (bug #345101). * Thu Nov 1 2007 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1:1.3.4-1 - 1.3.4 (bug #362971). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #421411 - "cupsctl --remote-any" doesn't stick https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=421411 [ 2 ] Bug #405061 - Line longer than the maximum allowed (255 characters) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=405061 [ 3 ] Bug #426148 - Cannot share my printer https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426148 [ 4 ] Bug #426653 - /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb busy-waits with 100% in select() call https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426653 [ 5 ] Bug #416871 - pstoraster needs modification for gs-8.61 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=416871 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update cups' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce