7.5

CVE-2008-1391: freebsd Numeric Errors

Modified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2008-1391
Published 27-03-2008Last modified 07-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-1391 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Numeric Errors vulnerability in freebsd. EPSS estimates a 18.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Priority
Prioritisepublic exploit

Public exploit (exploit-database, 27-03-2008)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
18.80%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits3reference, exploit-database

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DSA-2058-1

Timeline

  1. 27-03-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon function in lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, related to the GET_NUMBER macro; and (2) the printf function, related to left_prec and right_prec.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

18.80%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

97%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 18.80% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

3 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (securityreason.com)

    Maturity: unknown

  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (securityreason.com)

    Maturity: unknown

  • exploit-databasedosbsdVerified

    BSD (Multiple Distributions) - 'strfmon()' Integer Overflow

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • glibc< 2.11-1
Freebsd1 product
  • freebsdEOL6.0 | 6.0:release | 6.0:stable | 6.0_p5_release | 7.0 | 7.0:pre-release | 7.0_beta4 | 7.0_releng
Netbsd1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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