CVE-2008-0596

Fuga de memoria en CUPS versiones anteriores a 1.1.22 y posiblemente otras versiones, permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (consumo de memoria y caída del demonio) a través de un gran número de peticiones para añadir y eliminar impresoras compartidas.

Dave Camp at Critical Path Software discovered a buffer overflow in CUPS 1.1.23 and earlier could allow local admin users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URI to the CUPS service. The Red Hat Security Team also found two flaws in CUPS 1.1.x where a malicious user on the local subnet could send a set of carefully crafted IPP packets to the UDP port in such a way as to cause CUPS to crash or consume memory and lead to a CUPS crash. Finally, another flaw was found in how CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote printers via IPP that could allow a remote attacker to send a malicious IPP packet to the UDP port causing CUPS to crash.