CVE-2002-1371: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

filters/image-gif.c in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly check for zero-length GIF images, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via modified chunk headers, as demonstrated by nogif.

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.