CVE-2009-0949
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-908
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
The ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS before 1.3.10 does not properly initialize memory for IPP request packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a scheduler request with two consecutive IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED tags.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)20%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35322Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35328Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35340Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35342Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36701