CVE-2007-5848
Buffer overflow in CUPS in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows local admin users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URI to the CUPS service.
02 Description
Buffer overflow in CUPS in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows local admin users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URI to the CUPS service.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.54% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 45.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-12-19 21:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-11-06
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 31b5b6b5ed445a83b6b540c6d16645015abb92f41ba9a99c1cc7846a7e2a4960
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com28344http://secunia.com/advisories/28344
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-4238http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
- www.us-cert.govTA07-352Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2008:002http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
- secunia.com28441http://secunia.com/advisories/28441
- secunia.com28136http://secunia.com/advisories/28136
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commacos-cups-bo(39096)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39096
- www.securityfocus.com26910http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26910
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SA:2008:002http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00003.html
- www.securityfocus.com20080105 rPSA-2008-0008-1 cupshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485829/100/0/threaded
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2007-12-17http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:050http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:050
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2009
- docs.info.apple.comhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- secunia.com28636http://secunia.com/advisories/28636
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- cups Fixed in 1.2.0
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- cups Fixed in 1.2.0
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- cups Fixed in 1.2.0
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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