CVE-2008-0596 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0596
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Description: Memory leak in CUPS before 1.1.22, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon crash) via a large number of requests to add and remove shared printers.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/40842 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00000.html ST 1019497 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29087 Secunia Advisory: SA29189 Secunia Advisory: SA29251 Secunia Advisory: SA29420 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0161.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0153.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:050 CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-098.htm http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-084.htm http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0091 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0091 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488966/100/0/threaded BID 27988 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

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