CVE-2009-0949

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-06-09
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

The ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS before 1.3.10 does not properly initialize memory for IPP request packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a scheduler request with two consecutive IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED tags.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (cups)	ELSA-2009-1083	2009-06-03
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (cups)	ELSA-2009-1083	2009-06-03
Oracle Linux version 5 (cups)	ELSA-2009-1082	2009-06-03