RHSA-2020:3864 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: cups security and bug fix update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 30, 2020

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for cups is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.

Security Fix(es):

  • cups: DNS rebinding attacks via incorrect whitelist (CVE-2017-18190)

  • cups: stack-buffer-overflow in libcups's asn1_get_type function (CVE-2019-8675)

  • cups: stack-buffer-overflow in libcups's asn1_get_packed function (CVE-2019-8696)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:3864 — Red Hat Security Advisory: cups security and bug fix update | PulseLinux