CVE-2002-1368 EXPLOIT
7.5
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 15.5% (pctl 97)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| EPSS | 15.47% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2002-12-26 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| apple | mac os x |
| easy software products | cups |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | CUPS 1.1.x - Negative Length HTTP Header | 2002-12-19 |
References
- 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://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.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-295.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6437
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10909
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