Easy Software Products CUPS denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Easy Software Products CUPS. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2007-4045. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Easy Software Products CUPS (Printing Software) (affected version unknown). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

The CUPS service, as used in SUSE Linux before 20070720 and other Linux distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-0720 that introduced a different denial of service problem in SSL negotiation.

The bug was discovered 07/20/2007. The weakness was presented 07/27/2007 by LINUX with SuSE (Website). The advisory is shared at redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-4045 since 07/27/2007. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 7 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 67599 (Oracle Linux 4 : cups (ELSA-2007-1022)), 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 155992 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for CUPS (ELSA-2007-1022)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (36204), Tenable (67599), SecurityFocus (BID 26524†), OSVDB (58777†) and Secunia (SA27577†). See VDB-3444, VDB-3445, VDB-3446 and VDB-39606 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 67599
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 4 : cups (ELSA-2007-1022)
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OpenVAS ID: 860996
OpenVAS Name: Family Connections argv[1] Parameter Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: redhat.com
Researcher: LINUX
Organization: SuSE
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2007-4045 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-4045
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-38053

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X-Force: 36204
SecurityFocus: 26524 - CUPS SSL Negotiation Unspecified Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 27577 - Red Hat update for cups, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 58777 - CVE-2007-4045 - CUPS - Denial of Service Issue
Vulnerability Center: 16885 - SUSE Linux CUPS Service Allows Remote Attackers to Cause DoS via Unspecified Vectors, Medium

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Created: 03/15/2015 15:58
Updated: 07/31/2019 10:06
Changes: 03/15/2015 15:58 (81), 07/31/2019 10:06 (6)
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