cups — security advisory
Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS before 1.4.4, when kqueue or epoll is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553.
- Products
- cups
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.4.2-10
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-0302
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS before 1.4.4, when kqueue or epoll is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0302
cups
Fixed versions: 1.4.2-10
cups
Fixed versions: 1.4.2-10
cups
Fixed versions: 1.4.2-10
Complete source record
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