CVE-2008-5183

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-11-15
Bugzilla:
473901: CVE-2008-5183 cups: DoS (daemon crash) caused by the large number of subscriptions

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5183 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (cups) RHSA-2008:1029 2008-12-15

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