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HIGH

security flaw

Published Dec 20, 2002

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (24)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 20, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Dec 16, 2002
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date Dec 19, 2002