CVE-2002-1368: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 15.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.2 only; version 10.2.2 only
  • Easy Software Products Cups: version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.4_8 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.4 only; version 1.1.4_2 only; version 1.1.4_3 only; …

Published 2002-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.