CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-39314

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2026-04-07 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-04-07
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-191

Description

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, an integer underflow vulnerability in _ppdCreateFromIPP() (cups/ppd-cache.c) allows any unprivileged local user to crash the cupsd root process by supplying a negative job-password-supported IPP attribute. The bounds check only caps the upper bound, so a negative value passes validation, is cast to size_t (wrapping to ~2^64), and is used as the length argument to memset() on a 33-byte stack buffer. This causes an immediate SIGSEGV in the cupsd root process. Combined with systemd's Restart=on-failure, an attacker can repeat the crash for sustained denial of service.

Affected configurations

• openprinting cups (<= 2.4.16)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) weakness

References