National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0542

Overview

The _WriteProlog function in texttops.c in texttops in the Text Filter subsystem in CUPS before 1.4.4 does not check the return values of certain calloc calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or heap memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587746

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587746

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cups.org/strfiles/3516/str3516.patch

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://cups.org/strfiles/3516/str3516.patch

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cups.org/articles.php?L596

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://cups.org/articles.php?L596

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0535

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535

External Source: BID

Name: 40943

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40943

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:234

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:232

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2176

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1024121

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1024121

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-201207-10

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43521

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43521

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10365

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10365

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:023

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cups.org/str.php?L3516

Hyperlink:http://cups.org/str.php?L3516

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10365

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10365