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CVE-2002-1369: Easy Software Products Cups: Buffer overflow

CVE-2002-1369 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Easy Software Products Cups, along with 1 other product in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

jobs.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly use the strncat function call when processing the options string, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Easy Software Products Cups: 1.0.4; 1.0.4_8; 1.1.1; 1.1.4; 1.1.4_2; 1.1.4_3; 1.1.4_5; 1.1.6; 1.1.7; 1.1.10; 1.1.13; 1.1.14
  • Apple Mac OS X: 10.2; 10.2.2

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