CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-5183.md

### [CVE-2008-5183](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5183)
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### Description

cupsd in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by adding a large number of RSS Subscriptions, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.  NOTE: this issue can be triggered remotely by leveraging CVE-2008-5184.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/1
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7150

#### Github
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