CVE-2008-5183

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Apple

First reported 16 years ago

2008-11-21 02:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-29 01:32:00

Affected Software

Apple CUPS 1.1

1.1

Apple CUPS 1.1.1

1.1.1

Apple CUPS 1.1.2

1.1.2

Apple CUPS 1.1.3

1.1.3

Apple CUPS 1.1.4

1.1.4

Apple CUPS 1.1.5

1.1.5

Apple CUPS 1.1.5-1

1.1.5-1

Apple CUPS 1.1.5-2

1.1.5-2

Apple CUPS 1.1.6

1.1.6

Apple CUPS 1.1.6-1

1.1.6-1

Apple CUPS 1.1.6-2

1.1.6-2

Apple CUPS 1.1.6-3

1.1.6-3

Apple CUPS 1.1.7

1.1.7

Apple CUPS 1.1.8

1.1.8

Apple CUPS 1.1.9

1.1.9

Apple CUPS 1.1.9-1

1.1.9-1

Apple CUPS 1.1.10

1.1.10

Apple CUPS 1.1.10-1

1.1.10-1

Apple CUPS 1.1.11

1.1.11

Apple CUPS 1.1.12

1.1.12

Apple CUPS 1.1.13

1.1.13

Apple CUPS 1.1.14

1.1.14

Apple CUPS 1.1.15

1.1.15

Apple CUPS 1.1.16

1.1.16

Apple CUPS 1.1.17

1.1.17

Apple CUPS 1.18

1.1.18

Apple CUPS 1.1.19

1.1.19

Apple CUPS 1.1.19 release candidate 1

1.1.19

Apple CUPS 1.1.19 release candidate 2

1.1.19

Apple CUPS 1.1.19 release candidate 3

1.1.19

Apple CUPS 1.1.19 release candidate 4

1.1.19

Apple CUPS 1.1.19 release candidate 5

1.1.19

Apple CUPS 1.1.20

1.1.20

Apple CUPS 1.1.20 release candidate 1

1.1.20

Apple CUPS 1.1.20 release candidate 2

1.1.20

Apple CUPS 1.1.20 release candidate 3

1.1.20

Apple CUPS 1.1.20 release candidate 4

1.1.20

Apple CUPS 1.1.20 release candidate 5

1.1.20

Apple CUPS 1.1.20 release candidate 6

1.1.20

Apple CUPS 1.1.21

1.1.21

Apple CUPS 1.1.21 release candidate 1

1.1.21

Apple CUPS 1.1.21 release candidate 2

1.1.21

Apple CUPS 1.1.22

1.1.22

Apple CUPS 1.1.22 release candidate 1

1.1.22

Apple CUPS 1.1.22 release candidate 2

1.1.22

Apple CUPS 1.1.23

1.1.23

Apple CUPS 1.1.23 release candidate 1

1.1.23

Apple CUPS 1.2 b1

1.2

Apple CUPS 1.2 b2

1.2

Apple CUPS 1.2 release candidate 1

1.2

Apple CUPS 1.2 release candidate 2

1.2

Apple CUPS 1.2 release candidate 3

1.2

Apple CUPS 1.2.0

1.2.0

Apple CUPS 1.2.1

1.2.1

Apple CUPS 1.2.2

1.2.2

Apple CUPS 1.2.3

1.2.3

Apple CUPS 1.2.4

1.2.4

Apple CUPS 1.2.5

1.2.5

Apple CUPS 1.2.6

1.2.6

Apple CUPS 1.2.7

1.2.7

Apple CUPS 1.2.8

1.2.8

Apple CUPS 1.2.9

1.2.9

Apple CUPS 1.2.10

1.2.10

Apple CUPS 1.2.11

1.2.11

Apple CUPS 1.2.12

1.2.12

Apple CUPS 1.3 b1

1.3

Apple CUPS 1.3 release candidate 1

1.3

Apple CUPS 1.3 release candidate 2

1.3

Apple CUPS 1.3.0

1.3.0

Apple CUPS 1.3.1

1.3.1

Apple CUPS 1.3.2

1.3.2

Apple CUPS 1.3.3

1.3.3

Apple CUPS 1.3.4

1.3.4

Apple CUPS 1.3.5

1.3.5

Apple CUPS 1.3.6

1.3.6

Apple Cups

References

http://lab.gnucitizen.org/projects/cups-0day

APPLE-SA-2009-02-12

SUSE-SR:2008:026

33937

43521

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438

DSA-2176

http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/pwning-ubuntu-via-cups/

MDVSA-2009:028

[oss-security] 20081119 CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptions

[oss-security] 20081119 Re: CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptions

[oss-security] 20081120 Re: CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptions

RHSA-2008:1029

32419

1021396

ADV-2009-0422

ADV-2011-0535

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/298241

cups-rss-dos(46684)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10586

7150

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