CVE-2008-5183 Information

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.

Reference

http://lab.gnucitizen.org/projects/cups-0day http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 http://secunia.com/advisories/43521 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176 http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/pwning-ubuntu-via-cups/ http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:028 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/19/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/19/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/1 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1029.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32419 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021396 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/298241 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46684 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10586 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7150