CVE-2009-0163: Apple Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the TIFF image decoding routines in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image, which is not properly handled by the (1) _cupsImageReadTIFF function in the imagetops filter and (2) imagetoraster filter, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: up to and including 1.3.9; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only; …

Published 2009-04-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.