CVE-2008-0882

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Double free vulnerability in the process_browse_data function in CUPS 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted UDP Browse packets to the cupsd port (631/udp), related to an unspecified manipulation of a remote printer. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

cups: 1.3.5

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/28994
http://secunia.com/advisories/29067
http://secunia.com/advisories/29120
http://secunia.com/advisories/29132
http://secunia.com/advisories/29251
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://secunia.com/advisories/29485
http://secunia.com/advisories/29603
http://secunia.com/advisories/29634

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