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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2002-1369 json

jobs.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly use the strncat function call when processing the opti…

published 2002-12-26 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1353

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.2%
EPSS 8.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

jobs.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly use the strncat function call when processing the options string, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack.

Patch / fix

  • cups Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.1.18-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1369

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2002-1369 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:295

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

8.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • idefense.com http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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