National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2002-0378
Orirignal release date: 2002-07-03
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The default configuration of LPRng print spooler in Red Hat Linux 7.0 through 7.3, Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2, and other operating systems, accepts print jobs from arbitrary remote hosts.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: config
    Impact Type: sec_prot

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    LPRng (Patrick Powell)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0378