VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-5183

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability9.21%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-11-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references