CVE-2010-0302

high
Published 2010-03-05 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

fedora Fedora Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
11 Affected โ€”
macos macOS Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected 10.5.8
redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
5.4 Affected โ€”
5.0 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
9.10 Affected โ€”
9.04 Affected โ€”
8.10 Affected โ€”
8.04 Affected โ€”
6.06 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.4.2-10
sid Fixed 1.4.2-10
forky Fixed 1.4.2-10
bullseye Fixed 1.4.2-10
bookworm Fixed 1.4.2-10

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos applecups{"endExcluding":"1.4.4"}1.4.4

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.