CVE-2002-1368 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2002-1368 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

SuSE-SA:2003:002, published Thursday, Jan 2nd 2003 09:30 MEST

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:38:21 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Mar 26 11:13:22 2025