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CUPS Empty UDP Datagram DoS Vulnerability

Family:

Denial of Service

Category:

denial

Copyright:

This script is Copyright (C) 2004 George A. Theall

Summary:

Checks for Empty UDP Datagram DoS Vulnerability in CUPS

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Cve_id:

CVE-2004-0558

Bugtraq_id:

11183

Xrefs:

OSVDB:9995

Description:

The target is running a CUPS server that supports browsing of network
printers and that is vulnerable to a limited type of denial of service
attack. Specifically, the browsing feature can be disabled by sending
an empty UDP datagram to the CUPS server.

Solution : Upgrade to CUPS 1.1.21rc2 or later.

Risk factor : Low