Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting apple/cups package, versions [1.0.4_8,1.1.22_rc1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APPLECUPS-2364801
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Jan 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jan 2005

CVE-2004-1268  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for apple/cups.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 ignores write errors when modifying the CUPS passwd file, which allows local users to corrupt the file by filling the associated file system and triggering the write errors.

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