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    CVE-2008-0597

    Use-after-free vulnerability in CUPS before 1.1.22, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted IPP packets.

    Published:Feb 25, 2008
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Feb 26, 2008
    EPSS Score:0.05967
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Easy Software Products
    Product
    Cups
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Desktop
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2008-1373 (CVSS 5.8) — Buffer overflow in the gif_read_lzw function in CUPS 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact v…
    CVE-2008-0596 (CVSS 5) — Memory leak in CUPS before 1.1.22, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of s…
    CVE-2007-5849 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer underflow in the asn1_get_string function in the SNMP back end (backend/snmp.c) for CUPS 1.2 through 1…
    CVE-2005-3625 (CVSS 10) — Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allow…
    CVE-2005-3624 (CVSS 5) — The CCITTFaxStream::CCITTFaxStream function in Stream.cc for xpdf, gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS…
    CVE-2005-3626 (CVSS 5) — Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allow…
    CVE-2005-2526 (CVSS 5) — CUPS in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by s…
    CVE-2005-2525 (CVSS 5) — CUPS in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 does not properly close file descriptors when handling multiple simultaneou…
    CVE-2005-2874 (CVSS 5) — The is_path_absolute function in scheduler/client.c for the daemon in CUPS before 1.1.23 allows remote attacke…
    CVE-2004-1125 (CVSS 9.3) — Buffer overflow in the Gfx::doImage function in Gfx.cc for xpdf 3.00, and other products that share code such …

    References

    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://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
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0153.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0161.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488966/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27988
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019497
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40845
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2283
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9492
    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://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
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0153.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0161.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488966/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27988
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019497
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40845
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2283
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9492

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High