CVE-2010-2432 Information

Description

The cupsDoAuthentication function in auth.c in the client in CUPS before 1.4.4 when HAVE_GSSAPI is omitted does not properly handle a demand for authorization which allows remote CUPS servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED responses.

Reference

http://cups.org/articles.php?L596 http://cups.org/str.php?L3518 http://secunia.com/advisories/43521 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:146 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535