CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-0537
4.9 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/60 securityreason.com
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c.diff?r1=1.41%3Br2=1.42%3Bf=h www.openbsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501505/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34008 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021818 www.securitytracker.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8163 www.exploit-db.com
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/60 securityreason.com
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c.diff?r1=1.41%3Br2=1.42%3Bf=h www.openbsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501505/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34008 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021818 www.securitytracker.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8163 www.exploit-db.com