Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2008-1722 json

Multiple integer overflows in (1) filter/image-png.c and (2) filter/image-zoom.c in CUPS 1.3 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (…

published 2008-04-10 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1723

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in (1) filter/image-png.c and (2) filter/image-zoom.c in CUPS 1.3 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated via a crafted PNG image.

Patch / fix

  • cups Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.7-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1722

  • cups RHEL 3 1:1.1.17-13.3.53
  • cups RHEL 4 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8
  • cups RHEL 5 1:1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1
  • cups-lpd RHEL 5 1:1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1
  • cups-libs RHEL 3 1:1.1.17-13.3.53
  • cups-libs RHEL 4 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8
  • cups-libs RHEL 5 1:1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0498

  • cups openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.3.3op2-4.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10707-1

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-2008-1722 updated

cups: integer overflow in the image filter

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 cups 1.1.17-13.3.53, cups-libs 1.1.17-13.3.53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) cups 1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1, cups-lpd 1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1, cups-libs 1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 cups 1.1.17-13.3.53, cups-libs 1.1.17-13.3.53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 cups 1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8, cups-libs 1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) cups 1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1, cups-lpd 1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1, cups-libs 1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 cups 1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8, cups-libs 1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8
    +5 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) cups 1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1, cups-lpd 1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1, cups-libs 1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 cups 1.1.17-13.3.53, cups-libs 1.1.17-13.3.53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 cups 1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8, cups-libs 1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 cups 1.1.17-13.3.53, cups-libs 1.1.17-13.3.53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 cups 1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8, cups-libs 1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0498

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

2.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.