CVE-2008-0596

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Easy Software Products Cups: 1.1.17, 1.1.22

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29087
http://secunia.com/advisories/29189
http://secunia.com/advisories/29251
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-084.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-098.htm
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0091
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0091
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:050

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