CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5183
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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.
Affected configurations
• apple cups (<= 1.3.9)
• apple mac os x (< 10.5.6)
• apple mac os x server (< 10.5.6)
• opensuse opensuse 11.0
• debian debian linux 5.0
• debian debian linux 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://lab.gnucitizen.org/projects/cups-0day Broken Link
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html Mailing List
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43521 Broken Link
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/pwning-ubuntu-via-cups/ Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:028 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/19/3 Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/19/4 Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/1 Mailing List
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1029.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32419 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021396 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 Broken Link
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535 Broken Link
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/298241 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46684 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10586 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7150 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://lab.gnucitizen.org/projects/cups-0day Broken Link
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html Mailing List
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43521 Broken Link
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/pwning-ubuntu-via-cups/ Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:028 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/19/3 Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/19/4 Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/1 Mailing List
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1029.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32419 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021396 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 Broken Link
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535 Broken Link
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/298241 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46684 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10586 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7150 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry