CVE-2009-0949

cups: IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED handling NULL pointer dereference DoS

Published Jun 9, 2009 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 19.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-780-1 CUPS vulnerability
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