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Monday, November 9, 2009

CUPS 1.4.2 - Common UNIX printing system. (Free)

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CUPS 1.4.2

CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. It is developed and maintained by Easy Software Products to promote a standard printing solution and is the standard printing system in Mac OS X and most Linux distributions. CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ('IPP') as the basis for managing print jobs and queues and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ('PPD') based printing options to support real-world printing.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.4.2:

SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367, STR #3401)
Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the driver was changed (STR #3356)
The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support (STR #3346)
The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special characters (STR #3340)
The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer driver (STR #3342)
The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken SNMP implementations.