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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5183

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5183

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/20/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cups
  • suse-upgrade-cups-client
  • suse-upgrade-cups-devel
  • suse-upgrade-cups-libs
  • suse-upgrade-cups-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-cups-libs-64bit

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