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CVE-2008-5183

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.

Published

2008-11-21T02:30:00.453

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: MEDIUM
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-476
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application apple cups ≤ 1.3.9 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x < 10.5.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server < 10.5.6 Yes
Operating System opensuse opensuse 11.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 5.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 6.0 Yes
References