CVE-2002-1368

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    CVE-2002-1368

    Published: 26 Dec 2002Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/7756/, http://secunia.com/advisories/7794, http://secunia.com/advisories/7803, http://secunia.com/advisories/7843, http://secunia.com/advisories/7858, http://secunia.com/advisories/7907, http://secunia.com/advisories/7913/, http://secunia.com/advisories/8080/, http://secunia.com/advisories/9325/, http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-232, http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:001, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_002_cups.html, http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt, ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-004.0.txt, http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0117.html, http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000702, http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104032149026670&w=2, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-295.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6437, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10909

    Affected packages

    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