The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu Precise) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986452 Title: cups is not compiled with bind-now hardening option Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in cups source package in Precise: Won't Fix Status in cups source package in Quantal: Fix Released Status in cups package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: cups has been compiled with all the hardening options enabled since before ubuntu 10.04; however in the conversion to using the dpkg buildflags mechanism for hardening, the bind-now option was disabled. To demonstrate, with cups 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 using the hardening-check utility from the hardening-includes package: $ hardening-check /usr/sbin/cupsd /usr/sbin/cupsd: Position Independent Executable: yes Stack protected: yes Fortify Source functions: yes (some protected functions found) Read-only relocations: yes Immediate binding: no not found! it should return "Immediate binding: yes". Please see http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening for more details about this option. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: cups 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 CupsErrorLog: Date: Fri Apr 20 16:06:32 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120418) Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: No destinations added. Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox Papersize: letter ProcEnviron: TERM=screen LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic root=UUID=ffa05bbe-ed05-43a9-908d-40bc146535b4 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: cups UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2: dmi.product.name: VirtualBox dmi.product.version: 1.2 dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/986452/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp