Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2008-5286 json

Integer overflow in the _cupsImageReadPNG function in CUPS 1.1.17 through 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PNG…

published 2008-12-01 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-5263

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.4%
EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Integer overflow in the _cupsImageReadPNG function in CUPS 1.1.17 through 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PNG image with a large height value, which bypasses a validation check and triggers a buffer overflow.

Patch / fix

  • cups Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.8-1lenny4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5286

  • cups RHEL 3 1:1.1.17-13.3.55
  • cups-libs RHEL 3 1:1.1.17-13.3.55

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:1028

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-5286 updated

cups: Incomplete fix for CVE-2008-1722

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 cups 1.1.17-13.3.55, cups-libs 1.1.17-13.3.55 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 cups 1.1.17-13.3.55, cups-libs 1.1.17-13.3.55 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 cups 1.1.17-13.3.55, cups-libs 1.1.17-13.3.55 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 cups 1.1.17-13.3.55, cups-libs 1.1.17-13.3.55
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:1028

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.