CVE-2010-0302 Use after free in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the CUPS daemon via a use-after-free in job listing when kqueue or epoll is enabled.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2010-0302?
CVE-2010-0302 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Apple Cups, published on 5 Mar 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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 before 1.4.4, when kqueue or epoll is used, 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-3553.
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0302?
It affects 10 products.
Linux distribution packages (12)
cups Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups-lpd Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
cups-lpd Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 |
Products include Apple Cups, Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Redhat Enterprise Linux and 4 more.
How do I fix CVE-2010-0302?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2010-0302 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-0302 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Apple Cups
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0302, GHSA-f4w3-fh2q-326p, RHSA-2010:0129.