CVE-2008-3639

EPSS 8.0%

cupsys - several vulnerabilities

Published: 10/14/2008Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DSA-1656-1DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3639

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_rle16 function in imagetops in CUPS before 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an SGI image with malformed Run Length Encoded (RLE) data containing a small image and a large row count.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/cupsfrom 0, < 1.3.8-1lenny2
Debian/cupsysfrom 0, < 1.2.7-4etch5

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3639