CVE-2008-0596 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-0596?

CVE-2008-0596 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Feb 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-0596?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Easy Software Products Cups.

How do I fix CVE-2008-0596?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2008-0596 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-0596 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2001-0194 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2007-5849 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2004-1125 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2002-0063 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2001-1332 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-8473-h2r9-j663.