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CVE-2008-5183

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2008-11-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Apple Mac Os XDebian Debian LinuxApple CupsOpensuse OpensuseApple Mac Os X Server

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References