CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-3553

7.5 HIGH Published 2009-11-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-11-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-416

Description

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 1.3.7 and 1.3.10 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.

Affected configurations

• apple cups 1.3.7 • apple cups 1.3.10 • apple mac os x (< 10.5.8) • apple mac os x (>= 10.6.0 < 10.6.2) • apple mac os x server (< 10.5.8) • apple mac os x server (>= 10.6.0 < 10.6.2) • fedoraproject fedora 10 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.10 • debian debian linux 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux 5.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
  • CWE-911 Improper Update of Reference Count weakness

References