CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1436
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-04-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The db interface in libc in FreeBSD 6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2-PRERELEASE does not properly initialize memory for Berkeley DB 1.85 database structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a database file.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 6.3
• freebsd freebsd 6.4
• freebsd freebsd 7.0
• freebsd freebsd 7.1
• freebsd freebsd 7.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10756 kb.juniper.net
- http://osvdb.org/53918 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34810 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34666 Exploit, Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022113 www.securitytracker.com
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10756 kb.juniper.net
- http://osvdb.org/53918 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34810 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34666 Exploit, Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022113 www.securitytracker.com