CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1284
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-04-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.
Affected configurations
• bibtex bibtex 0.99
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34445 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34445 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html www.redhat.com