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CVE-2004-1269

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 does not remove the passwd.new file if it encounters a file-size resource limit while writing to passwd.new, which causes subsequent invocations of lppasswd to fail.

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 (+16)
• RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0, core_3.0

References

• http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:008
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-053.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18608
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9545
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/50-1/
• http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:008
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html

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