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.
Published: 2008-02-26
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 4.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-0606 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.
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Redhat Desktop Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:54:22.959Z

Reserved: 2008-02-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0596

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-02-26T00:44:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-0596

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-02-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-0596 - Bugzilla

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