CVE-2002-1372

Fixed in a distro release EPSS 3%CVSS 7.5

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly check the return values of various file and socket operations, which could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by causing file descriptors to be assigned and not released, as demonstrated by fanta.

Published 2004-09-01 · CVE record · OSV

Products: apple cups, apple mac_os_x, debian_linux

Distro releases