Description
Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 7.5/10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PAffected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0117.html
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000702
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104032149026670&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7756/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7803
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7843
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7858
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7907
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7913/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/8080/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/9325/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-232
- http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:001
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_002_cups.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-295.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6437
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10909
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0117.html
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000702
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104032149026670&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7756/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7803
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7843
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7858
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7907
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7913/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/8080/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/9325/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-232
- http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:001
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_002_cups.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-295.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6437
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10909
Timeline
- Published
- Dec 26, 2002
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified