CVE-2008-5183
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 9.2%
exploitation probability
9.2%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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 products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7150⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://lab.gnucitizen.org/projects/cups-0dayhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.htmlhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/298241http://secunia.com/advisories/33937http://secunia.com/advisories/43521https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46684https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10586http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7150http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/pwning-ubuntu-via-cups/