CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1577
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-05-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the putstring function in find.c in Cscope before 15.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) function name or (2) symbol in a source-code file.
Affected configurations
• cscope cscope (<= 15.5)
• cscope cscope 13.0
• cscope cscope 15.0bl2
• cscope cscope 15.1
• cscope cscope 15.3
• cscope cscope 15.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?r1=1.18&r2=1.19 Patch
- http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?view=log#rev1.19 cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net
- http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/cscope/devel/cscope-15.5-putstring-overflow.patch cvs.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35213 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-02.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/05/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html www.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189666 Exploit, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499174 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50366 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9837 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?r1=1.18&r2=1.19 Patch
- http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?view=log#rev1.19 cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net
- http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/cscope/devel/cscope-15.5-putstring-overflow.patch cvs.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35213 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-02.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/05/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html www.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189666 Exploit, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499174 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50366 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9837 oval.cisecurity.org