CVE-2010-2432

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The cupsDoAuthentication function in auth.c in the client in CUPS before 1.4.4, when HAVE_GSSAPI is omitted, does not properly handle a demand for authorization, which allows remote CUPS servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED responses.

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?L3518
http://secunia.com/advisories/43521
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:146
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535
http://cups.org/articles.php?L596
http://cups.org/str.php?L3518
http://secunia.com/advisories/43521
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176

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