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.
Published: 2008-11-21
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 4.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2176-1 cups security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-707-1 CUPS vulnerabilities
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Subscriptions

Apple Cups Mac Os X Mac Os X Server
Debian Debian Linux
Opensuse Opensuse
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:40:17.284Z

Reserved: 2008-11-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-5183

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-11-21T02:30:00.453

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-5183

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-11-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-5183 - Bugzilla

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