Easy Software Products CUPS up to 1.1.22 Rc1 lppasswd

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Easy Software Products CUPS and classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component lppasswd. The manipulation leads to an unknown weakness. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-1268. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Easy Software Products CUPS (Printing Software). This issue affects an unknown part of the component lppasswd. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

lppasswd in cups 1.1.22 ignores write errors when modifying the cups passwd file which allows local users to corrupt the file by filling the associated file system and triggering the write errors.

The bug was discovered 12/17/2004. The weakness was shared 01/10/2005 by Bartlomiej Sieka (Website). The advisory is shared at xforce.iss.net. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2004-1268 since 12/20/2004. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 24 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18990 (FreeBSD : cups-lpr -- lppasswd multiple vulnerabilities (7850a238-680a-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 1 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (18606), Tenable (18990), SecurityFocus (BID 12004†), OSVDB (12453†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-6861†). The entries VDB-23791 and VDB-23790 are related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 18990
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : cups-lpr -- lppasswd multiple vulnerabilities (7850a238-680a-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)
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OpenVAS ID: 16141
OpenVAS Name: CUPS < 1.1.23 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

12/15/2004 🔍
12/17/2004 +2 days 🔍
12/20/2004 +3 days 🔍
01/10/2005 +21 days 🔍
01/10/2005 +0 days 🔍
01/10/2005 +0 days 🔍
01/17/2005 +7 days 🔍
01/19/2005 +2 days 🔍
07/13/2005 +175 days 🔍
03/10/2015 +3527 days 🔍
05/29/2019 +1541 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Researcher: Bartlomiej Sieka
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1268 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1268
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-23789

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X-Force: 18606
SecurityFocus: 12004 - Easy Software Products LPPassWd CUPS Password File Truncation Vulnerability
OSVDB: 12453 - CUPS lppasswd denial of service
Vulnerability Center: 6861 - lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 Allows Files Corruption, Low

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 15:27
Updated: 05/29/2019 12:30
Changes: 03/10/2015 15:27 (74), 05/29/2019 12:30 (6)
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Cache ID: 216:95E:103

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