| Description: | The Common UNIX® Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems.
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the way CUPS handled subscriptions for printing job completion notifications. A local user could use this flaw to crash the CUPS daemon by submitting a large number of printing jobs requiring mail notification on completion, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-5183)
Users of cups should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
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