CUPS Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Easy Software Products CUPS 1.4.x
Easy Software Products CUPS 1.3.x
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 56494
Cve id: CVE-2012-5519

CUPS is a standard open-source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X and other UNIX-related operating systems.

CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) has the Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands as root users.

<* Source: Jann Horn
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Easy Software Products
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Currently, the vendor does not provide patches or upgrade programs. We recommend that users who use the software follow the vendor's homepage to obtain the latest version:

Http://www.cups.org