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cups — security advisory
Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly check the return values of various file and socket operations, which could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by causing file descriptors to be assigned and not released, as demonstrated by fanta.
- Products
- cups
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.1.18-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2002-1372
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly check the return values of various file and socket operations, which could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by causing file descriptors to be assigned and not released, as demonstrated by fanta.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1372
cups
Fixed versions: 1.1.18-1
cups
Fixed versions: 1.1.18-1
cups
Fixed versions: 1.1.18-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T00:00:23.897413233Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 410932,
"published_at": "2002-12-26T05:00:00+00:00"
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