February 2005

ID: 00121
Ref: 104/2005
Date: 10 February 2005:15:38:43
Version: 1

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Title: SCO Security Advisory: UnixWare 7.1.4 : vulnerability in foomatic-rip in Foomatic
Abstract: Unknown vulnerability in foomatic-rip in Foomatic before 3.0.2 allows local users or remote attackers with access to CUPS to execute arbitrary commands

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SCO Security Advisory: UnixWare 7.1.4 : vulnerability in foomatic-rip in Foomatic

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Unknown vulnerability in foomatic-rip in Foomatic before 3.0.2 allows local users or remote attackers with access to CUPS to execute arbitrary commands


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SCO Security Advisory

Subject: UnixWare 7.1.4 : vulnerability in foomatic-rip in Foomatic
before 3.0.2 allows local users or remote attackers with access
to CUPS to execute arbitrary commands
Advisory number: SCOSA-2005.12
Issue date: 2005 February 07
Cross reference: sr891400 fz530505 erg712704 CAN-2004-0801
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1. Problem Description

Unknown vulnerability in foomatic-rip in Foomatic before
3.0.2 allows local users or remote attackers with access
to CUPS to execute arbitrary commands

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CAN-2004-0801 to this issue.


2. Vulnerable Supported Versions

System Binaries
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UnixWare 7.1.4 /usr/bin/foomatic-gswrapper
/usr/bin/foomatic-rip

3. Solution

The proper solution is to install the latest packages.

4. UnixWare 7.1.4

4.1 Location of Fixed Binaries

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.12

4.2 Verification

MD5 (erg712704.pkg) = af69594469448a198e30945ff1b975b3

md5 is available for download from
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/security/tools

4.3 Installing Fixed Binaries

Upgrade the affected binaries with the following sequence:

Download erg712704.pkg to the /var/spool/pkg directory

# pkgadd -d /var/spool/pkg/erg712704.pkg


5. References

Specific references for this advisory:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0801
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17388

SCO security resources:
http://www.sco.com/support/security/index.html

SCO security advisories via email
http://www.sco.com/support/forums/security.html

This security fix closes SCO incidents sr891400 fz530505
erg712704.


6. Disclaimer

SCO is not responsible for the misuse of any of the information
we provide on this website and/or through our security
advisories. Our advisories are a service to our customers
intended to promote secure installation and use of SCO
products.


7. Acknowledgments

SCO would like to thank the SuSE Security Team.


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