CVE-2008-0596 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-0596 at MITRE

Description

Memory leak in CUPS before 1.1.22, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon crash) via a large number of requests to add and remove shared printers.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 363919 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:012, published Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:45:51 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:13 2025