CVE-2008-5183

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Nov 21, 2008
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2008-5183: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix