CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4881
5.0 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10600 sources.redhat.com
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=153aa31b93be22e01b236375fb02a9f9b9a0195f sourceware.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:111 www.mandriva.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59241 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10600 sources.redhat.com
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=153aa31b93be22e01b236375fb02a9f9b9a0195f sourceware.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:111 www.mandriva.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59241 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com