MGASA-2018-0147

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    MGASA-2018-0147

    Published: 26 Feb 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-18190

    Summary: Updated cups packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Updated cups packages fix security vulnerability: Jann Horn discovered that CUPS permitted HTTP requests with the Host header set to "localhost.localdomain" from the loopback interface. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in their web browser, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information or control printers, via a DNS rebinding attack (CVE-2017-18190).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0147.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22649, https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3577-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cups

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/cups?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.0.4-1.4.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High