Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:281 (cups)

The remote host is missing an update to cups announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:281. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR...

Null pointer dereference

The ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS before 1.3.10 does not properly initialize memory for IPP request packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash via a scheduler request with two consecutive IPPTAGUNSUPPORTED tags...