CVE-2009-0577: Apple Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the WriteProlog function in texttops in CUPS 1.1.17 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PostScript file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3640.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: version 1.1.17 only

Published 2009-02-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.