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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-3553 Detail

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 1.3.7 and 1.3.10 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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jan/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37360 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37364 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38241 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/43521 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-275230-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4004 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php/newsgroups.php?v5994+gcups.bugs CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php/newsgroups.php?v5996+gcups.bugs CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php/newsgroups.php?v6055+gcups.bugs CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3200 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:073 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1595.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37048 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-906-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0173 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0535 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530111 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11183 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00332.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-416 Use After Free cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-3553
NVD Published Date:
11/19/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.