CVE Catalog

CVE-2002-1368

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

CUPS versions 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by feeding negative arguments into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with a negative Content-Length value or a negative length in chunked transfer encoding.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to remotely crash the printing service and potentially gain control over the system, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update CUPS to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor server logs for potential attack attempts.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS