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cups-pdf package

  1. Bug #472468
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 472468

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote : Re: [Bug 472468] [NEW] cups-pdf and cups-insecure-filter print error on cups 1.4.1

> Binary package hint: cups-pdf
>
> Upgraded to 9.10.
> Installed cups-pdf the same way that I did in 9.04
> Getting an error message whenever doing a test print:
>
> W [03/Nov/2009:09:32:00 +0000] [CGI] Unhandled message: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable, path=/, member=Introspect
> E [03/Nov/2009:09:37:33 +0000] Unable to remove temporary file "/var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip" - Is a directory
> E [03/Nov/2009:09:41:28 +0000] Unable to execute /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf: insecure file permissions (0106700)
> E [03/Nov/2009:09:41:28 +0000] [Job 329] Stopping job because the sheduler could not execute the backend.
> E [03/Nov/2009:10:04:45 +0000] Unable to remove temporary file "/var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip" - Is a directory
> E [03/Nov/2009:10:05:13 +0000] Unable to execute /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf: insecure file permissions (0106700)
> E [03/Nov/2009:10:05:13 +0000] [Job 330] Stopping job because the sheduler could not execute the backend.
>
> Cups folder is owned by root.

I really wonder how that happened, given how the backend's permissions are:

-rwx------ 1 root root 22K 2009-10-21 16:40 /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf

...which is sufficiently secure enough as it is.