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cups: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | cups | CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0596 CVE-2008-0597 | |||||||||||||||
| Created: | February 25, 2008 | Updated: | March 6, 2008 | |||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Red Hat advisory: A flaw was found in the way CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. A remote attacker could send malicious UDP IPP packets causing the CUPS daemon to attempt to dereference already freed memory and crash. (CVE-2008-0597) A memory management flaw was found in the way CUPS handled the addition and removal of remote shared printers via IPP. When shared printer was removed, allocated memory was not properly freed, leading to a memory leak possibly causing CUPS daemon crash after exhausting available memory. (CVE-2008-0596) These issues were found during the investigation of CVE-2008-0882. | |||||||||||||||||
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