CVE-2009-0689

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 15
Modified
Published: 01 Jul 2009, 12:26
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 04:40

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
46/100
CVSS Score
6.8 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
41.76% HIGH
42% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
13 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

01 Jul 2009, 12:26
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 04:40
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Array index error in the (1) dtoa implementation in dtoa.c (aka pdtoa.c) and the (2) gdtoa (aka new dtoa) implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc, as used in multiple operating systems and products including in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, K-Meleon 1.5.3, SeaMonkey 1.1.8, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large precision value in the format argument to a printf function, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow during conversion to a floating-point number.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 41.76%• Percentile: 97%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • freebsd•freebsd

    6.4 | 6.4:release | 6.4:release_p2 | 6.4:release_p3 | 6.4:release_p4 | 6.4:release_p5 | 6.4:stable | 7.2 | 7.2:pre-release | 7.2:stable

  • k-meleon_project•k-meleon

    1.5.3

  • mozilla•firefox

    3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.0.6 | 3.0.7 | 3.0.8 | 3.0.9 | 3.0.10 | 3.0.11 | 3.0.12 | 3.0.13 | 3.0.14 | 3.5 | 3.5.1 | 3.5.2 | 3.5.3

  • mozilla•seamonkey

    1.1.8

  • netbsd•netbsd

    5.0

  • openbsd•openbsd

    4.5

References (53)