CVE-2025-58436 (GCVE-0-2025-58436)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-29 02:15 – Updated: 2025-12-03 15:23
VLAI?
Title
OpenPrinting CUPS slow client can halt cupsd, leading to a possible DoS attack
Summary
OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Prior to version 2.4.15, a client that connects to cupsd but sends slow messages, e.g. only one byte per second, delays cupsd as a whole, such that it becomes unusable by other clients. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.15.
Severity ?
5.1 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| OpenPrinting | cups |
Affected:
< 2.4.15
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