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    CVE-2004-1269

    lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 does not remove the passwd.new file if it encounters a file-size resource limit while writing to passwd.new, which causes subsequent invocations of lppasswd to fail.

    Published:Dec 15, 2004
    Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
    EPS:Dec 22, 2004
    EPSS Score:0.08636
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Easy Software Products
    Product
    Cups
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Fedora Core

    Exploits

    http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txthttp://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txthttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25012

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2008-0597 (CVSS 5) — Use-after-free vulnerability in CUPS before 1.1.22, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to ca…
    CVE-2007-5849 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer underflow in the asn1_get_string function in the SNMP back end (backend/snmp.c) for CUPS 1.2 through 1…
    CVE-2005-3625 (CVSS 10) — Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allow…
    CVE-2005-3624 (CVSS 5) — The CCITTFaxStream::CCITTFaxStream function in Stream.cc for xpdf, gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS…
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    References

    http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:008
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-053.html
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18608
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9545
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/50-1/
    http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:008
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-013.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-053.html
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18608
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9545
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/50-1/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High