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A vulnerability was found in Apple cups up to 1.1.4 (Printing Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:
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.
The bug was discovered 11/18/2008. The weakness was presented 11/20/2008 by pagvac with GNUCITIZEN (Website). The advisory is shared at bugs.launchpad.net. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-5183 since 11/20/2008. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.
It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 67776 (Oracle Linux 5 : cups (ELSA-2008-1029)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 116215 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2009-02-12)).
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (46684), Tenable (67776) and Exploit-DB (7150). See 3868, 3872, 38543 and 42789 for similar entries.
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Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 67776
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 5 : cups (ELSA-2008-1029)
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OpenVAS ID: 69111
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2176-1 (cups)
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: bugs.launchpad.net
Researcher: pagvac
Organization: GNUCITIZEN
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-5183 (🔍)
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X-Force: 46684
SecurityTracker: 1021396
Vulnerability Center: 20234 - CUPS < 1.3.8 Cupsd DoS Vulnerability via a Large Number of RSS Subscriptions, Medium
SecurityFocus: 32419 - CUPS 'cupsd' RSS Subscriptions NULL Pointer Dereference Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 43521 - Debian update for cups, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 50351 - CVE-2008-5183 - CUPS - Denial of Service Issue
Vupen: ADV-2009-0422
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 03/17/2015 16:11Updated: 08/22/2019 10:38
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (91), 08/22/2019 10:38 (6)
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