Explain CVE-2002-1368
Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding.
Affected Products: n/a
References: [{'name': 'cups-neg-memcpy-bo(10909)', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_XF'], 'url': 'https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10909'}, {'name': '7858', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/7858'}, {'name': '7843', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/7843'}, {'name': '20021219 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 12.19.02: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_VULNWATCH'], 'url': 'http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0117.html'}, {'name': '9325', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/9325/'}, {'name': 'CLSA-2003:702', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_CONECTIVA'], 'url': 'http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000702'}, {'name': 'CSSA-2003-004.0', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_CALDERA'], 'url': 'ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-004.0.txt'}, {'name': '7756', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/7756/'}, {'name': '7907', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/7907'}, {'name': 'MDKSA-2003:001', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_MANDRAKE'], 'url': 'http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:001'}, {'name': '7913', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/7913/'}, {'name': '7794', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/7794'}, {'name': 'DSA-232', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_DEBIAN'], 'url': 'http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-232'}, {'name': 'SuSE-SA:2003:002', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUSE'], 'url': 'http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_002_cups.html'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_MISC'], 'url': 'http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2002:295', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-295.html'}, {'name': '6437', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_BID'], 'url': 'http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6437'}, {'name': '7803', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/7803'}, {'name': '8080', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/8080/'}, {'name': '20021219 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 12.19.02: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_BUGTRAQ'], 'url': 'http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104032149026670&w=2'}]
CVE State: PUBLISHED