CVE-2008-0597 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2008-0597?

CVE-2008-0597 is a medium-severity use after free 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

Use-after-free vulnerability in CUPS before 1.1.22, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted IPP packets.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-0597?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Easy Software Products Cups.

How do I fix CVE-2008-0597?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2008-0597 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-0597 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-6r33-h68m-pxhm.