SUSE Security Announcement – Alvaro Martinez Echevarria has found a remote Denial of Service condition within CUPS which allows remote users to make the cups server unresponsive. Additionally the SUSE Security Team has discovered a flaw in the foomatic-rip print filter which is commonly installed along with cups. It allows remote attackers, which are listed in the printing ACLs, to execute arbitrary commands as the printing user ‘lp’.
You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/34377/SUSE-SA%3A2004%3A031.txt
Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/34377/SUSE-Security-Announcement-2004.31.html