CVE-2009-2820 Information

Description

The web interface in CUPS before 1.4.2 as used on Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 and other platforms does not properly handle (1) HTTP headers and (2) HTML templates which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and HTTP response splitting attacks via vectors related to (a) the product’s web interface (b) the configuration of the print system and (c) the titles of printed jobs as demonstrated by an XSS attack that uses the kerberos parameter to the admin program and leverages attribute injection and HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP) issues.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37308 http://secunia.com/advisories/37360 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021115.1-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L590 http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/relnotes.html http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3367 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:072 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:073 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1595.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529833 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9153