CVE-2002-1372: Apple Cups

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly check the return values of various file and socket operations, which could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by causing file descriptors to be assigned and not released, as demonstrated by fanta.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: from 1.1.14, up to and including 1.1.17
• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.2 only; version 10.2.2 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 2.2 only; version 3.0 only

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