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CVE-2012-5519 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (cups, cupsys), 12 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, upstream): DNE 5, released 5, needs-triage 2.
CUPS 1.4.4, when running in certain Linux distributions such as Debian GNU/Linux, stores the web interface administrator key in /var/run/cups/certs/0 using certain permissions, which allows local users in the lpadmin group to read or write arbitrary files as root by leveraging the web interface.