CVE-2008-5183

Publication date 21 November 2008

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cups	8.10 intrepid	Fixed 1.3.9-2ubuntu6.1
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not in release
	7.10 gutsy	Not in release
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release
cupsys	8.10 intrepid	Not in release
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 1.3.7-1ubuntu3.3
	7.10 gutsy	Fixed 1.3.2-1ubuntu7.9
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

Only 1.3.x has rss subscriptions, so dapper is not vulnerable

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
cups	Vendor: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=325223 Upstream: http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/trunk/

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-707-1
CUPS vulnerabilities
12 January 2009