CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-4881

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2010-06-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-06-01
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-189

Description

Integer overflow in the __vstrfmon_l function in stdlib/strfmon_l.c in the strfmon implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted format string, as demonstrated by the %99999999999999999999n string, a related issue to CVE-2008-1391.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.9) • gnu glibc 1.00 • gnu glibc 1.01 • gnu glibc 1.02 • gnu glibc 1.03 • gnu glibc 1.04 • gnu glibc 1.05 • gnu glibc 1.06 • gnu glibc 1.07 • gnu glibc 1.08 • gnu glibc 1.09 • gnu glibc 2.0 • gnu glibc 2.0.1 • gnu glibc 2.0.2 • gnu glibc 2.0.3 • gnu glibc 2.0.4 • gnu glibc 2.0.5 • gnu glibc 2.0.6 • gnu glibc 2.1 • gnu glibc 2.1.1 • gnu glibc 2.1.1.6 • gnu glibc 2.1.2 • gnu glibc 2.1.3 • gnu glibc 2.1.3.10 • gnu glibc 2.1.9 • gnu glibc 2.2 • gnu glibc 2.2.1 • gnu glibc 2.2.2 • gnu glibc 2.2.3 • gnu glibc 2.2.4 • gnu glibc 2.2.5 • gnu glibc 2.3 • gnu glibc 2.3.1 • gnu glibc 2.3.2 • gnu glibc 2.3.3 • gnu glibc 2.3.4 • gnu glibc 2.3.5 • gnu glibc 2.3.6 • gnu glibc 2.3.10 • gnu glibc 2.4 • gnu glibc 2.5 • gnu glibc 2.5.1 • gnu glibc 2.6 • gnu glibc 2.6.1 • gnu glibc 2.7 • gnu glibc 2.8

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References