PT-2005-3738 · Apple+1 · Cups+1

Richard Harman

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Published

2005-09-13

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Updated

2017-10-11

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CVE-2005-2874

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CUPS versions prior to 1.1.23
Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption by a tight loop, via a "...." URL in an HTTP request. This is due to the is path absolute function in scheduler/client.c for the daemon.
Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1.23, update to version 1.1.23 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

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Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2874
RHSA-2005:772
RHSA-2005_772

Affected Products

Cups
Red Hat