Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-0163

Title: Apple Cups RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-0163.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Apr 23, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.25%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-0163: Integer overflow in the TIFF image decoding routines in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image, which is not properly handled by the (1) _cupsImageReadTIFF function in the imagetops filter and (2) imagetoraster filter, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

apple 1

easy_software_products 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00011.html http://secunia.com/advisories/34481 http://secunia.com/advisories/34722 http://secunia.com/advisories/34747 http://secunia.com/advisories/34756 http://secunia.com/advisories/34852 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-20.xml http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0061 http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L582 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3031 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1773 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0428.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0429.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502750/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34571 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022070 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-760-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490596 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11546 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00011.html http://secunia.com/advisories/34481 http://secunia.com/advisories/34722 http://secunia.com/advisories/34747 http://secunia.com/advisories/34756 http://secunia.com/advisories/34852 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-20.xml http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0061 http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L582 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3031 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1773 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0428.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0429.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502750/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34571 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022070 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-760-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490596 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11546

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-0163 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 23, 2009 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.