CVE-2007-4045

Summary

CVECVE-2007-4045
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-07-27 22:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe CUPS service, as used in SUSE Linux before 20070720 and other Linux distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-0720 that introduced a different denial of service problem in SSL negotiation.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apple Cups All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 7 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Bug 250161 – CVE-2007-4045 Incomplete fix for CVE-2007-0720 CUPS denial of service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: cups-1.2.12-7.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com Broken Link
Gentoo update for cups - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Third Party Advisory
Advisories | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
Fedora update for cups - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Bug 199195 - net-print/cups < 1.2.12-r3 SSL DoS due to fix for CVE-2007-0720 (CVE-2007-4045) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
ASA-2007-476 (RHSA-2007-1023) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com Third Party Advisory
CUPS SSL Negotiation Unspecified Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat update for cups - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-11-09Mark J CoxThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. Updates to correct this are available: https://rhn.redhat.com/cve/CVE-2007-4045.html

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