Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.7

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Apr 1 15:23:48 PDT 2008


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

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

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.






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