FrSIRT - Redhat Security Update Fixes CUPS Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Redhat Security Update Fixes CUPS Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Redhat Security Update Fixes CUPS Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1860
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2874
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-09-27

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Technical Description

Redhat has released updated packages to correct a vulnerability identified in CUPS. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "is_path_absolute()" function [scheduler/client.c] that does not properly handle specially crafted HTTP GET requests, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash a vulnerable application via a malformed request.

ChangeLog

2005-09-27 : Initial release

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