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CVE-2010-0542medium
Description
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.
References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587746
http://secunia.com/advisories/43521
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201207-10.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024121
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10365
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2176
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:232
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:234