:Mandriva has issued an update for cups. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).The vulnerability is caused due to an error when adding or removing remote shared printers via IPP. This can be exploited to crash the CUPS daemon by sending specially crafted IPP packets to a vulnerable service.Solution:Apply updated packages.Mandriva Linux 20070a7d158dea287d3fb02d562e66144f55 2007.0/i586/cups-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.i586.rpm0f89e8283a7765359bf587aa1a49d537 2007.0/i586/cups-common-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.i586.rpm80e246d3868f57bc052f9d0527161ed2 2007.0/i586/cups-serial-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.i586.rpm11e435c39845560d06451300cee0ff78 2007.0/i586/libcups2-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.i586.rpm82903c633dfe9b705976ac9cfea5fe13 2007.0/i586/libcups2-devel-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.i586.rpmf688f9d5d9c80a1c4081ba897bda3b31 2007.0/i586/php-cups-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.i586.rpm9d8074c34c5471dd2ea7150747e9763d 2007.0/SRPMS/cups-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.src.rpmMandriva Linux 2007/X86_6435030a4837fef0355a0353e552d56d45 2007.0/x86_64/cups-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm6f91d3f1c641e623549ad9d102037205 2007.0/x86_64/cups-common-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm5b974bae09a30c051fca184dbfc514a6 2007.0/x86_64/cups-serial-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpmd6a2095673a0e3093303bb98c2251fb8 2007.0/x86_64/lib64cups2-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpmd705ff9b705c54a3c842c25823c3c412 2007.0/x86_64/lib64cups2-devel-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm64424352ee5b03cc16d6318d47681602 2007.0/x86_64/php-cups-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm9d8074c34c5471dd2ea7150747e9763d 2007.0/SRPMS/cups-1.2.4-1.7mdv2007.0.src.rpmOriginal Advisory:http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:051

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