CVE-2007-4045

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The CUPS service, as used in SUSE Linux before 20070720 and other Linux distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-0720 that introduced a different denial of service problem in SSL negotiation.

Affected products

cups: before 1.2.0 — fixed in 1.2.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: cups 1.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199195
http://secunia.com/advisories/27577
http://secunia.com/advisories/27615
http://secunia.com/advisories/28113
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-476.htm
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-14.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:036
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1022.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1023.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26524
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250161

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