EUVD-2026-19805CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. In versions 2.4.16 and prior, an integer underflow vulnerability in _ppdCreateFromIPP() (cups/ppd-cache.c) allows any unprivileged local user to crash the cupsd root process by supplying a negative job-password-supported IPP attribute. The bounds check only caps the upper bound, so a negative value passes validation, is cast to size_t (wrapping to ~2^64), and is used as the length argument to memset() on a 33-byte stack buffer. This causes an immediate SIGSEGV in the cupsd root process. Combined with systemd's Restart=on-failure, an attacker can repeat the crash for sustained denial of service.
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Denial of service in OpenPrinting CUPS 2.4.16 and prior allows unprivileged local users to crash the cupsd root process via integer underflow in _ppdCreateFromIPP() by supplying a negative job-password-supported IPP attribute, which wraps to a large size_t value and triggers a stack buffer overflow in memset(). When combined with systemd's automatic restart mechanism, an attacker can sustain repeated crashes without requiring elevated privileges or user interaction.
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