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CupsApplication

CVE-2007-4351

HIGH · 10.0 CVSS v2.0 Published 2007-10-31
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to after 1.3.3 or later.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Off-by-one error in the ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in CUPS 1.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) textWithLanguage or (2) nameWithLanguage Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) tag, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-189

A legacy NVD category grouping numeric mistakes — overflows, truncation, sign errors — where a miscalculated value goes on to drive a dangerous decision such as a memory allocation or a bounds check. It is a bucket rather than one specific bug. Remediation is checked arithmetic and validating any computed size or index before it is used.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
CupsApplication
Affected:<= 1.3.3

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to a release after 1.3.3
Vendor patch secunia.com →
Recommended fix High confidence

CUPS 1.3.4 or later (modern distributions should use CUPS 2.x series)

  1. 1. Identify the current CUPS version by running 'cups-config --version' or checking your system's package manager
  2. 2. If running CUPS version 1.3.3 or earlier, upgrade to CUPS 1.3.4 or later
  3. 3. For Linux systems using package managers: run 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade cups' (Debian/Ubuntu) or 'yum update cups' (RHEL/CentOS) or 'zypper update cups' (SUSE)
  4. 4. For macOS systems, update via Software Update or install the Apple-supplied CUPS update
  5. 5. After upgrading, verify the new version with 'cups-config --version'
  6. 6. Restart the CUPS service with 'service cups restart' or 'systemctl restart cups' to apply the update
Caveat Minimal risk for this point release upgrade; however, verify printer configurations and any custom IPP implementations after updating

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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