Use After Free in Apple Cups
CVE-2010-0302
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.
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (85.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Cups
- Apple Mac OS X
- Apple Mac OS X Server
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 8.10, 9.04
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 11
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 5.4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cups.org/articles.php (Release Notes)
- cups.org/str.php (Release Notes)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037174.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)
- secunia.com/advisories/38785 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/38927 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/38979 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/40220 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT4188 (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2010-0302?
- CVE-2010-0302 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple Cups, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2010-03-05.
- How severe is CVE-2010-0302?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.