Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:23497Denial Of Service (DoS)
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
cups is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). The vulnerability exists as an integer overflow flaw leading to a heap buffer overflow was discovered in the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) decoding routines used by the CUPS image converting filters βimagetopsβ and βimagetorasterβ. An attacker could create a malicious PNG file that could possibly execute arbitrary code as the βlpβ user if the file was printed.
References
secunia.com/advisories/29809
secunia.com/advisories/29902
secunia.com/advisories/30078
secunia.com/advisories/30190
secunia.com/advisories/30553
secunia.com/advisories/30717
secunia.com/advisories/31324
secunia.com/advisories/32292
www.cups.org/str.php?L2790
www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1625
www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-23.xml
www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/218395
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:170
www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
www.osvdb.org/44398
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
www.securityfocus.com/bid/28781
www.securitytracker.com/id?1019854
www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-606-1
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1226/references
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0498
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41832
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8768
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0498.html
usn.ubuntu.com/656-1/
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00068.html
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00081.html
Related
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P