CVE-2008-0597 (GCVE-0-2008-0597)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-02-26 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:54
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/29087 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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Date Public
2008-02-25 00:00
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      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2008/cve-2008-0597.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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