CVE-2010-0302

high-risk
Published 2010-03-05

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.

Do I need to act?

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5.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (14)

Affected Vendors

Apple Canonical Redhat Fedoraproject

References (36)

Release Notes http://cups.org/articles.php?L596
Release Notes http://cups.org/str.php?L3490
Mailing List http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037174.html
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/38785
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/38927
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/38979
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/40220
Third Party Advisory http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
Vendor Advisory http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188
Broken Link http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:073
Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38510
Broken Link http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024124
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-906-1
Broken Link http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557775
Broken Link https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3...
Third Party Advisory https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0129.html
Release Notes http://cups.org/articles.php?L596
Release Notes http://cups.org/str.php?L3490
and 16 more references
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 8/34 · Low
Exposure 18/34 · Moderate