CVE-2010-2941

high-risk
Published 2010-11-05

ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS 1.4.4 and earlier does not properly allocate memory for attribute values with invalid string data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted IPP request.

Do I need to act?

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21.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 79% of all CVEs
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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
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Affected Vendors

Fedoraproject Suse Apple Opensuse Debian Canonical Redhat

References (58)

Broken Link http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
Mailing List http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050977.h...
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051277.h...
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051301.h...
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0811.html
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/42287
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/43521
Third Party Advisory http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
Broken Link http://securitytracker.com/id?1024662
Broken Link http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware...
Broken Link http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
Mailing List http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
Broken Link http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232
Broken Link http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:233
Broken Link http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234
Broken Link http://www.osvdb.org/68951
Broken Link http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0866.html
and 38 more references
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 14/34 · Moderate
Exposure 21/34 · High