Upstream information

CVE-2008-5183 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 446975 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 cups154 Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 12 cups154 Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 cups154 Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 cups154 Already fixed
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 cups154 Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 cups154 Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 cups154 Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 cups154 Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 cups154 Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 cups154 Already fixed


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:34:29 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 29 21:09:40 2023