PT-2010-2300

CVE-2010-0542

Published

2010-06-17

Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 2.0

6.8

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CUPS versions prior to 1.4.4

Description The issue is related to the WriteProlog function in texttops.c in the Text Filter subsystem, which does not check the return values of certain calloc calls. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, such as a NULL pointer dereference or heap memory corruption, or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.4.4, update to version 1.4.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Regenrecht

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Related identifiers

CVE-2010-0542