1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3842-1

USN-3842-1: CUPS vulnerability

Publication date

10 December 2018

Overview

CUPS could be made to expose sensitive information.

Releases

Packages

  • cups - Common UNIX Printing System(tm)

Details

Jann Horn discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled session cookie
randomness. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform
cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Jann Horn discovered that CUPS incorrectly handled session cookie
randomness. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform
cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
18.10 cosmic cups –  2.2.8-5ubuntu1.1
18.04 bionic cups –  2.2.7-1ubuntu2.2
16.04 xenial cups –  2.1.3-4ubuntu0.6
14.04 trusty cups –  1.7.2-0ubuntu1.11

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