cve/2002/CVE-2002-1372.md

### [CVE-2002-1372](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-1372)
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### Description

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 does not properly check the return values of various file and socket operations, which could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by causing file descriptors to be assigned and not released, as demonstrated by fanta.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104032149026670&w=2

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.