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CVE-2008-0596

Published: 26 February 2008

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand
1.2 and 1.3 implement mimeDeleteFilter(), which uses
cupsArrayRemove()

Priority

Low

Status

Package Release Status
cupsys
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper Not vulnerable

edgy Not vulnerable

feisty Not vulnerable

gutsy Not vulnerable

upstream Needs triage

Patches:
vendor: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0153.html