CVE-2010-0542: Apple Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The _WriteProlog function in texttops.c in texttops in the Text Filter subsystem in CUPS before 1.4.4 does not check the return values of certain calloc calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or heap memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: up to and including 1.4.3; 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 2010-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.