CUPS IPP Use-After-Free Denial of Service Vulnerability

Summary
This host is running CUPS and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will let the remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted IPP request. Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to 1.4.5 or above, For updates refer to http://www.cups.org/software.php
Insight
The flaw is caused by improper allocation of memory for attribute values with invalid string data type.
Affected
CUPS 1.4.4 and prior
References