CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1391
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
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.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 6.0
• freebsd freebsd 6.0 p5 release
• freebsd freebsd 7.0
• freebsd freebsd 7.0 beta4
• freebsd freebsd 7.0 releng
• netbsd netbsd 4.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c cvsweb.netbsd.org
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29574 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33179 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/53 Exploit
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3770 Exploit
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 support.apple.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490158/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28479 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019722 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41504 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c cvsweb.netbsd.org
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29574 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33179 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/53 Exploit
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3770 Exploit
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 support.apple.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490158/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28479 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019722 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41504 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org