CVE-2003-0144: Bsd Lpr

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the lprm command in the lprold lpr package on SuSE 7.1 through 7.3, OpenBSD 3.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain root privileges via long command line arguments such as (1) request ID or (2) user name.

Affected products

• Bsd Lpr: version 0.48 only; version 2000-05-07 only
• Freebsd Freebsd: version 2.2 only; version 2.2.2 only; version 2.2.3 only; version 2.2.4 only; version 2.2.5 only; version 2.2.6 only
• Lprold Lprold: version 3.0.48 only
• OpenBSD OpenBSD: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; …

Published 2003-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.