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Vulnerability · CVE-2002-1368

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) memcpy() calls Vulnerability

Published Dec 19, 2002 · catalog updated Jun 16, 2026 · Common Unix Printing System

Patch now

CVE-2002-1368 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Common Unix Printing System against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

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  • The stored product name is a package slug. The name on this page is taken from the title (Common Unix Printing System).
Severity
High7.5
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
15.47%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
cpe apple/mac os x · cpe easy software products/cups · vendor easy_software_products cups

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • cpe apple/mac os x10.2
  • cpe easy software products/cups1.0.4
  • cpe easy software products/cups1.0.4_8
  • cpe easy software products/cups1.1.1
  • cpe easy software products/cups1.1.4
  • cpe easy software products/cups1.1.4_2
  • cpe easy software products/cups1.1.4_3
  • vendor easy_software_products cupsversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2002-1368

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2002-1368 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Common Unix Printing System against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with apple/mac os x 10.2; easy software products/cups 1.0.4; easy software products/cups 1.0.4_8; easy software products/cups 1.1.1. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 15.47%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Dec 19, 2002 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

  2. Dec 26, 2002 · Apple Security Releases

    Detected

    Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding.

  3. Jun 16, 2026 · Apple Security Releases

    Updated

    Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding.

Sources

  • Apple Security ReleasesVendor advisoryCVE-2002-1368

    Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding.

    nvd.nist.gov
  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2002-1368

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2002-1368

    30-day exploitation probability 15.5%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2002-1368

    Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2)

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.