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CVE-2009-0577

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-02-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the WriteProlog function in texttops in CUPS 1.1.17 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PostScript file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3640.

Affected products

• cups: 1.1.17

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/33995
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-064.htm
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0308.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486052
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48977
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9968
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33995
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-064.htm
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0308.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486052
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48977
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9968

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