Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-0577

Title: Apple Cups RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-0577.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Feb 20, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-0577: Integer overflow in the WriteProlog function in texttops in CUPS 1.1.17 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PostScript file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3640.

Impacted Vendors

apple 1

easy_software_products 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/33995 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-064.htm http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0308.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486052 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48977 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9968 http://secunia.com/advisories/33995 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-064.htm http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0308.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486052 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48977 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9968

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-2009-0577 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.

February 20, 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.