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TITLE:
CUPS Incomplete SSL Negotiation Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24517

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24517/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
CUPS 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/921/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in CUPS, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to CUPS not using multiple workers to
handle connections. This can be exploited to stop CUPS from accepting
new connections by starting but never completing an SSL negotiation.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Mac OS X Update and a Red Hat bug.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232243

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