CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0537

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2009-03-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-03-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the fts_build function in fts.c in libc in (1) OpenBSD 4.4 and earlier and (2) Microsoft Interix 6.0 build 10.0.6030.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a deep directory tree, related to the fts_level structure member, as demonstrated by (a) du, (b) rm, (c) chmod, and (d) chgrp on OpenBSD; and (e) SearchIndexer.exe on Vista Enterprise.

Affected configurations

• microsoft interix 6.0 • openbsd openbsd (<= 4.4) • openbsd openbsd 2.0 • openbsd openbsd 2.1 • openbsd openbsd 2.2 • openbsd openbsd 2.3 • openbsd openbsd 2.4 • openbsd openbsd 2.5 • openbsd openbsd 2.6 • openbsd openbsd 2.7 • openbsd openbsd 2.8 • openbsd openbsd 2.9 • openbsd openbsd 3.0 • openbsd openbsd 3.1 • openbsd openbsd 3.2 • openbsd openbsd 3.3 • openbsd openbsd 3.4 • openbsd openbsd 3.5 • openbsd openbsd 3.6 • openbsd openbsd 3.7 • openbsd openbsd 3.8 • openbsd openbsd 3.9 • openbsd openbsd 4.0 • openbsd openbsd 4.1 • openbsd openbsd 4.2 • openbsd openbsd 4.3

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References