fkie_cve-2008-5183
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-11-21 02:30
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| apple | cups | * | |
| apple | mac_os_x | * | |
| apple | mac_os_x_server | * | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 11.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 5.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 6.0 |
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