CVE-2009-0163

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the TIFF image decoding routines in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image, which is not properly handled by the (1) _cupsImageReadTIFF function in the imagetops filter and (2) imagetoraster filter, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

cups: through 1.3.9; 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 (+71)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00011.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34481
http://secunia.com/advisories/34722
http://secunia.com/advisories/34747
http://secunia.com/advisories/34756
http://secunia.com/advisories/34852
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-20.xml
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0061
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L582
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3031
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1773
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0428.html

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