Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-438
Advisory Release Date: 2014-10-28 17:17 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-11-01 14:07 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the CUPS web interface. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack against users of the CUPS web interface. (CVE-2014-2856)
It was discovered that CUPS allowed certain users to create symbolic links in certain directories under /var/cache/cups/. A local user with the 'lp' group privileges could use this flaw to read the contents of arbitrary files on the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-3537, CVE-2014-5029, CVE-2014-5030, CVE-2014-5031)
Affected Packages:
cups
Issue Correction:
Run yum update cups to update your system.
i686:
cups-libs-1.4.2-67.20.al12.i686
cups-lpd-1.4.2-67.20.al12.i686
cups-devel-1.4.2-67.20.al12.i686
cups-php-1.4.2-67.20.al12.i686
cups-1.4.2-67.20.al12.i686
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-67.20.al12.i686
src:
cups-1.4.2-67.20.al12.src
x86_64:
cups-lpd-1.4.2-67.20.al12.x86_64
cups-devel-1.4.2-67.20.al12.x86_64
cups-libs-1.4.2-67.20.al12.x86_64
cups-debuginfo-1.4.2-67.20.al12.x86_64
cups-1.4.2-67.20.al12.x86_64
cups-php-1.4.2-67.20.al12.x86_64