CVE-2004-1269: Easy Software Products Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 does not remove the passwd.new file if it encounters a file-size resource limit while writing to passwd.new, which causes subsequent invocations of lppasswd to fail.

Affected products

• 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; …
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_2.0 only; version core_3.0 only

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.