Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-3553

Title: Apple Cups Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-3553.

CWE Category CWE-416
Published Date Nov 20, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.91%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-3553: Use-after-free vulnerability in the abstract file-descriptor handling interface in the cupsdDoSelect function in scheduler/select.c in the scheduler in cupsd in CUPS 1.3.7 and 1.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a client disconnection during listing of a large number of print jobs, related to improperly maintaining a reference count. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impacted Vendors

E
easy_software_products 1
A
apple 1

Reference Links

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jan/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37360 http://secunia.com/advisories/37364 http://secunia.com/advisories/38241 http://secunia.com/advisories/43521 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-275230-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4004 http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php/newsgroups.php?v5994+gcups.bugs http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php/newsgroups.php?v5996+gcups.bugs http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php/newsgroups.php?v6055+gcups.bugs http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3200 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:073 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1595.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37048 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-906-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0173 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530111 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11183 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00332.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jan/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37360 http://secunia.com/advisories/37364 http://secunia.com/advisories/38241 http://secunia.com/advisories/43521 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-275230-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4004 http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php/newsgroups.php?v5994+gcups.bugs http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php/newsgroups.php?v5996+gcups.bugs http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php/newsgroups.php?v6055+gcups.bugs http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3200 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:073 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1595.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37048 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-906-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0173 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530111 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11183 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00332.html
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-3553 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.