CVE-2004-1269

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    CVE-2004-1269

    Published: 10 Jan 2005Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:008, http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml, 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/

    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