CVE-2008-5183
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: November 21, 2008 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:59 PM UTC
5 products affected across 3 vendorsmacOSDebian LinuxopenSUSE
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 9%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v < 10.5.6
Affected range stops below 10.5.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 10.5.6
Affected range stops below 10.5.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:028
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1029.html
References (21)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/43521Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176x_refsource_MISCBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/pwning-ubuntu-via-cups/CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476
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