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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4045

Original release date:07/27/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The 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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (11/09/2007)
The 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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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2007-3100
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250161
External Source: BID
Name: 26524
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:1023
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:1022
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:014
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200712-14
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-476.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28113
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27615
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27577
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199195
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:036

Vulnerable software and versions

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