[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: cups-1.3.9-2.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-10917
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Name        : cups
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 1.3.9
Release     : 2.fc9
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.

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Update Information:

Security update to fix CVE-2008-5183.    Also fixed in this update are a bug
that caused cups-polld to fail to resolve hostnames, a bug that could cause
libcups to get stuck in a loop, and incorrect form-feed handling in the textonly
filter.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Dec  3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.9-2
- Applied patch to fix STR #2974 (bug #473905, CVE-2008-5286,
  CVE-2008-1722).
- Applied patch to fix RSS subscription limiting (bug #473901,
  CVE-2008-5183).
- Fixed cups-polld again for res_init (STR #3023, bug #354071).
- Added patch to avoid polling busy loop (STR #2988).
- Fixed textonly filter to send FF correctly.
* Fri Oct 10 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.9-1
- 1.3.9, including fixes for CVE-2008-3639 / STR #2918,
  CVE-2008-3640 / STR #2919 and CVE-2008-3641 / STR #2911
  (bug #466419).
- No longer need str2892 or res_init patches.
* Wed Sep 10 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- Backported patch for FatalErrors configuration directive
  (bug #314941, STR #2536).
* Wed Sep  3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- The dnssd backend uses avahi-browse so require it (bug #458565).
- cups-polld: reinit the resolver if we haven't yet resolved the
  hostname (bug #354071).
* Tue Aug  5 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.8-2
- Mark template files config(noreplace) for site-local modifications
  (bug #441719).
* Sun Aug  3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.8-1
- 1.3.8.
- Applied patch to fix STR #2892 (bug #453610).
- Removed autoconf requirement by applying autoconf-generated changes
  to patches that caused them.  Affected patches: cups-lspp.
- CVE-2008-1373 patch is no longer needed (applied upstream).
- Mark HTML files and templates config(noreplace) for site-local
  modifications (bug #441719).
- The cups-devel package requires zlib-devel (bug #455192).
* Tue Jul  1 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-8
- Fixed bug #447200 again.
* Tue Jun 17 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- Don't overwrite the upstream snmp.conf file.
* Tue Jun 17 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-7
- Backported cupsGetNamedDest from 1.4 (bug #428086).
- Fixed bug #447200 again.
* Tue Jun  3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-6
- Applied patch to fix STR #2750 (IPP authentication).
* Fri May 30 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-5
- Better fix for cupsdTimeoutJob LSPP configuration suggested by
  Matt Anderson (bug #447200).
* Thu May 29 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-4
- Fix last fix (bug #447200).
* Wed May 28 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-3
- If cupsdTimeoutJob is called when the originating connection is still
  known, pass that to the function so that copy_banner can get at it if
  necessary (bug #447200).
* Fri May  9 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.7-2
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2008-1722 (integer overflow in image filter,
  bug #441692, STR #2790).
* Thu Apr  3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- Main package requires exactly-matching libs package.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #473901 - CVE-2008-5183 cups: DoS (daemon crash) by adding a large number of RSS subscriptions
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473901
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update cups' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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