CVE-2002-1369: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 8.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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.