CVE-2005-2525 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2525?

CVE-2005-2525 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 19 Aug 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

CUPS in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 does not properly close file descriptors when handling multiple simultaneous print jobs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (printing halt).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2525?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Easy Software Products Cups.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2525?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-2525 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-2005-2525 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-2525 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-wqww-w37x-q338.