CVE-2008-5183
HIGH7.5EPSS 4.6%cups - several
Published: 11/21/2008Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5183
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 packages (2)
- Debian/cupsfrom 0, < 1.3.9-13
- Debian/cupsfrom 0, < 1.3.8-1+lenny9
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |