Fedora 8 Update: cups-1.3.5-2.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-0322
2008-01-27 06:41:09
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Name        : cups
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.3.5
Release     : 2.fc8
URL         : http://www.cups.org/
Summary     : Common Unix Printing System
Description :
The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for
UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products
to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users.
CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces.

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Update Information:

This updates cups to the latest stable release, and fixes:    * a busy-looping
problem with backends  * a PPD parsing failure  * failure of 'cupsctl --remote-
any' to have any effect    This version addresses issue known as CVE-2007-5849,
which is not really a security issue (see #415131).
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 21 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1.3.5-2
- Rebuilt.
* Thu Jan 10 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- Apply patch to fix busy looping in the backends (bug #426653, STR #2664).
* Wed Jan  9 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- Apply patch to prevent overlong PPD lines from causing failures except
  in strict mode (bug #405061).  Needed for compatibility with older
  versions of foomatic (e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4).
- Applied upstream patch to fix cupsctl --remote-any (bug #421411, STR #2650).
* Thu Jan  3 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1.3.5-1
- 1.3.5.  No longer need str2600, CVE-2007-4352,5392,5393 patches.
- Efficiency fix for pstoraster (bug #416871).
* Fri Nov 30 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- CVE-2007-4045 patch is not necessarily because cupsd_client_t objects are
  not moved in array operations, only pointers to them.
* Tue Nov 27 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- Updated to improved dnssd backend from Till Kamppeter.
- Don't undo the util.c parts of STR #2537.
* Tue Nov 20 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.4-4
- Added fix for STR #2600 in which cupsd can crash from a NULL dereference
  with LogLevel debug2 (bug #385631).
* Mon Nov 12 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.4-3
- Fixed CVE-2007-4045 patch; has no effect with shipped packages since they
  are linked with gnutls.
- Temporarily undo STR #2537 change so that non-UTF-8 requests are not
  rejected (bug #378211).
- LSPP cupsdSetString/ClearString fixes (bug #378451).
* Wed Nov  7 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.4-2
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4045 (bug #250161).
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392 and
  CVE-2007-5393 (bug #345101).
* Thu Nov  1 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 1:1.3.4-1
- 1.3.4 (bug #362971).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #421411 - "cupsctl --remote-any" doesn't stick
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=421411
  [ 2 ] Bug #405061 - Line longer than the maximum allowed (255 characters)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=405061
  [ 3 ] Bug #426148 - Cannot share my printer
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426148
  [ 4 ] Bug #426653 - /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb busy-waits with 100% in select() call
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426653
  [ 5 ] Bug #416871 - pstoraster needs modification for gs-8.61
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=416871
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update cups' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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