NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting apple/cups package, versions [,1.3.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.21% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APPLECUPS-2364792
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Nov 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Nov 2008

CVE-2008-5183  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apple/cups to version 1.3.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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