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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2024 11:38 pm    Post subject: Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.7 Reply with quote

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CUPS 1.3.7 is now available for download from the CUPS web site:

http://www.cups.org/software.html

The new release includes three security fixes and several printing and authentication fixes. We encourage all CUPS users to update to the current release.

Changes include:

CVE-2008-0047: cgiCompileSearch buffer overflow (STR #2729)
CVE-2008-1373: CUPS GIF image filter overflow (STR #2765)
Updated the "make check" tests to do a more thorough automated test.
cups-driverd complained about missing directories (STR #2777)
cupsaddsmb would leave the Samba username and password on disk if no Windows drivers were installed (STR #2779)
The Linux USB backend used 100% CPU when a printer was disconnected (STR #2769)
The sample raster drivers did not properly handle SIGTERM (STR #2770)
The scheduler sent notify_post() messages too often on Mac OS X.
Kerberos access to the web interface did not work (STR #2748)
The scheduler did not support "AuthType Default" in IPP policies (STR #2749)
The scheduler did not support the "HideImplicitMembers" directive as documented (STR #2760)
"make check" didn't return a non-zero exit code on error (STR #2758)
The scheduler incorrectly logged AUTH_foo environment variables in debug mode (STR #2751)
The image filters inverted PBM files (STR #2746)
cupsctl would crash if the scheduler was not running (STR #2741)
The scheduler could crash when printing using a port monitor (STR #2742)
The scheduler would crash if PAM was broken (STR #2734)
The image filters did not work with some CMYK JPEG files produced by Adobe applications (STR #2727)
The Mac OS X USB backend did not work with printers that did not report a make or model.
The job-sheets option was not encoded properly (STR #2715)
The scheduler incorrectly complained about missing LSB PPD directories.

http://www.cups.org/articles.html?L537



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