| Name | CVE-2008-5183 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2176-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 506180 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| cups (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.7.5-11+deb8u12 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.2.1-8+deb9u8 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.2.1-8+deb9u12 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2.2.10-6+deb10u11 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 2.2.10-6+deb10u10 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u8 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u9 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 2.4.2-3+deb12u7 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 2.4.2-3+deb12u8 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 2.4.10-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cups | source | lenny | 1.3.8-1+lenny9 | DSA-2176-1 | ||
| cups | source | (unstable) | 1.3.9-13 | low | 506180 | |
| cupsys | source | etch | (not affected) |
[lenny] - cups <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[etch] - cupsys <not-affected> (RSS subscription code not yet present)