CVE-2009-1284

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 None
Description
Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2009-1284
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2009-04-09T16:27:57
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2013-04-19T02:49:41
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:bibtex:bibtex:0.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920 Exploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/34445
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1284
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1284
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 10:45:54 Added to TrackCVE