CVE-2008-5183
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 21, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 20, 2008
Description
cupsd in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by adding a large number of RSS Subscriptions, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: this issue can be triggered remotely by leveraging CVE-2008-5184.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 7150exploit
- 33937third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10586vdb-entrysignature
- [oss-security] 20081120 Re: CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptionsmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20081119 CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptionsmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20081119 Re: CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptionsmailing-list
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
- APPLE-SA-2009-02-12vendor-advisory
- DSA-2176vendor-advisory
- 1021396vdb-entry
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/pwning-ubuntu-via-cups/
- ADV-2011-0535vdb-entry
- ADV-2009-0422vdb-entry
- 32419vdb-entry
- RHSA-2008:1029vendor-advisory
- 43521third-party-advisory
- http://lab.gnucitizen.org/projects/cups-0day
- cups-rss-dos(46684)vdb-entry
- SUSE-SR:2008:026vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2009:028vendor-advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/298241
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