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CVE-2002-1372

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly check the return values of various file and socket operations, which could allow a r…

Impact

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly check the return values of various file and socket operations, which could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by causing file descriptors to be assigned and not released, as demonstrated by fanta.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AppleCups
from 1.1.14 through 1.1.17
AppleMac Os X
Versions 10.2, 10.2.2
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 2.2, 3.0

Weakness classification

CWE-252

References