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CVE-2008-0596

Publication date 26 February 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cupsys 7.10 gutsy
Not affected
7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

jdstrand

1.2 and 1.3 implement mimeDeleteFilter(), which uses cupsArrayRemove()

Patch details

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Package Patch details
cupsys