Please Install the Updated Packages.

The Common UNIX® Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was discovered in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) decoding routines used by the CUPS image-converting filters, &quot imagetops&quot and &quot imagetoraster&quot . An attacker could create a malicious TIFF file that could, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the &quot lp&quot user if the file was printed. (CVE-2009-0163) Red Hat would like to thank Aaron Sigel of the Apple Product Security team for responsibly reporting this flaw. Users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, the cupsd daemon will be restarted automatically.

cups on CentOS 3

• http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-April/015786.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25