CVE-2004-0558

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) implementation in CUPS before 1.1.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service hang) via a certain UDP packet to the IPP port.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-24599 dos linux verified text · 1 KB

Alvaro Martinez Echevarria · 2004-09-15

CUPS 1.1.x - UDP Packet Remote Denial of Service

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11183/info

CUPS is prone to a remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability that may be triggered through port 631 by a zero-length UDP packet.

nmap -sU -p 631 example.com

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.1.20final+rc1-6`
sid	Fixed	`1.1.20final+rc1-6`
forky	Fixed	`1.1.20final+rc1-6`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.1.20final+rc1-6`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.1.20final+rc1-6`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-0558

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.