Denial of Service Vulnerability in CUPS by Apple
CVE-2009-0949

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Apple
Status
Cups
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 June 2009

Summary

The ippReadIO function in cupsd's CUPS versions earlier than 1.3.10 contains a flaw where memory for IPP request packets is not properly initialized. This vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers to trigger a denial of service condition through a specific scheduler request that contains two consecutive IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED tags, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and subsequent crash of the daemon.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35169
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1811
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/35340
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

EPSS Score

15% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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