Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
The Common UNIX® Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems.
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the way CUPS handled subscriptions for printing job completion notifications. A local user could use this flaw to crash the CUPS daemon by submitting a large number of printing jobs requiring mail notification on completion, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-5183)
Users of cups should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
Affected
cups on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-5183 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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