CVE-2007-5849

Summary

CVECVE-2007-5849
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-12-19 21:46:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-29 01:33:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger underflow in the asn1_get_string function in the SNMP back end (backend/snmp.c) for CUPS 1.2 through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SNMP response that triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.5.1 All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.5.1 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.2.10 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.2.12 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.2.4 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.2.9 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.3.3 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.2.10 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.2.12 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.2.4 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.2.9 All All All
Application Easy Software Products Cups 1.3.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO www.gentoo.org
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-352A -- Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
USN-563-1: CUPS vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
About Security Update 2007-009 CONFIRM docs.info.apple.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1437-1 cupsys DEBIAN www.debian.org
APPLE-SA-2007-12-17 Security Update 2007-009 APPLE lists.apple.com
Gentoo update for cups - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: cups (SUSE-SA:2008:002) SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Apple Mac OS X v10.5.1 2007-009 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Fedora 8 Update: cups-1.3.5-2.fc8 FEDORA www.redhat.com
Fedora update for cups - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Common UNIX Printing System SNMP 'asn1_get_string()' Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
CUPS SNMP Backend "asn1_get_string()" Signedness Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
Debian update for cupsys - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Advisories | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
SNMP backend integer underflow/stack overflow in asn1_get_string() · Issue #2589 · apple/cups · GitHub CONFIRM www.cups.org
Ubuntu update for cups - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SUSE update for cups - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Bug 201570 - net-print/cups < 1.2.12-r4 SNMP backend buffer overflow (CVE-2007-5849) CONFIRM bugs.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-01-02Joshua BressersNot vulnerable. This flaw does not affect the version of CUPS shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 4. After a detailed analysis of this flaw, it has been determined it does not pose a security threat on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. For more details regarding this analysis, please see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415131
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