CVE-2009-3553

high

Description

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 1.3.7 and 1.3.10 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.

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jan/msg00000.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530111

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4004

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00332.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-906-1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-11-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High