CVE-2002-1384

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-01-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in pdftops, as used in Xpdf 2.01 and earlier, xpdf-i, and CUPS before 1.1.18, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a ColorSpace entry with a large number of elements, as demonstrated by cups-pdf.

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 (+7)
Xpdf: 0.90, 0.91, 1.0, 1.0a, 1.1, 2.0 (+1)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104152282309980&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-222
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-226
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-232
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.23.02.txt
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:001
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:002
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_002_cups.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-295.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-307.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-037.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-216.html

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