CVE-2000-0513 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0513?

CVE-2000-0513 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 Oct 2000. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) 1.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by authenticating with a user name that does not exist or does not have a shadow password.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0513?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Debian Debian Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0513?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0513 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2000-0513 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0513 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jvqm-q54c-fwxg.