CVE-2010-0542

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The _WriteProlog function in texttops.c in texttops in the Text Filter subsystem in CUPS before 1.4.4 does not check the return values of certain calloc calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or heap memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Affected products

cups: through 1.4.3; 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 (+77)

References

http://cups.org/articles.php?L596
http://cups.org/str.php?L3516
http://cups.org/strfiles/3516/str3516.patch
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43521
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024121
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40943
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535

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