CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-0949

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Jun 09, 2009 | Modified: Feb 09, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
5 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS before 1.3.10 does not properly initialize memory for IPP request packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a scheduler request with two consecutive IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED tags.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cups Apple * 1.3.10 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RedHat cups-1:1.1.17-13.3.62 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat cups-1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.32.el4_8.3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat cups-1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6 *
Cups Ubuntu intrepid *
Cups Ubuntu jaunty *
Cups Ubuntu upstream *
Cupsys Ubuntu dapper *
Cupsys Ubuntu hardy *

Potential Mitigations

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