CVE-2008-5183

Name	CVE-2008-5183
Description	cupsd in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by adding a large number of RSS Subscriptions, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: this issue can be triggered remotely by leveraging CVE-2008-5184.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-2176-1
Debian Bugs	506180

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
cups (PTS)	bullseye	2.3.3op2-3+deb11u8	fixed
	bullseye (security)	2.3.3op2-3+deb11u9	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	2.4.2-3+deb12u8	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.4.10-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
cups	source	lenny	1.3.8-1+lenny9		DSA-2176-1
cups	source	(unstable)	1.3.9-13	low		506180
cupsys	source	etch	(not affected)

[lenny] - cups <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[etch] - cupsys <not-affected> (RSS subscription code not yet present)