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CVE-2002-1383: Easy Software Products Cups: Buffer overflow

CVE-2002-1383 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

Multiple integer overflows in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) the CUPSd HTTP interface, as demonstrated by vanilla-coke, and (2) the image handling code in CUPS filters, as demonstrated by mksun.

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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