CVE-2002-1368

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

macOS: 10.2, 10.2.2
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 (+7)

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/

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