CVE-2004-1269 Denial of service in n/a
A local attacker can cause a denial of service in CUPS by triggering a file-size limit during password changes, preventing subsequent password updates.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2004-1269?
CVE-2004-1269 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Fedora Core, published on 22 Dec 2004. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 does not remove the passwd.new file if it encounters a file-size resource limit while writing to passwd.new, which causes subsequent invocations of lppasswd to fail.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1269?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Easy Software Products Cups, Redhat Fedora Core.
How do I fix CVE-2004-1269?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2004-1269 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-1269 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Fedora Core
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1269, GHSA-v5xh-vw4x-23mx.