NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting cups-lpd package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-CUPSLPD-21016987
  • published16 Oct 2026
  • disclosed9 Oct 2026

Introduced: 9 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-107888  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 cups-lpd.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cups-lpd package and not the cups-lpd package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

OpenPrinting CUPS before 2.4.20 contains a NULL pointer dereference in cupsdCheckJobs() when a job marked job-held-on-create refers to a temporary printer that has been automatically deleted. Temporary-printer cleanup can remove the destination without canceling its held jobs, and the scheduler dereferences the NULL result of cupsdFindDest() while checking holding_new_jobs. This terminates cupsd and interrupts all queues managed by that process. In some plausible scenarios, an unprivileged submission can trigger this.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1