CVE-2026-39314
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.01
BB Relevance:
47/100
Published: 2026-04-07
Modified: 2026-10-26
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
Low Complexity
No Auth
No Interaction
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Local
AC:
Low
PR:
None
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
None
I:
None
A:
High
Description
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.
Weakness Classification (1)
Affected Software (1)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| openprinting | cups | < 2.4.16 |
References & Advisories (1)
Exploit
Mitigation
Vendor Advisory