CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-5029
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Integer overflow in the __tzfile_read function in glibc before 2.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted timezone (TZ) file, as demonstrated using vsftpd.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (<= 2.14)
• 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 2.1.9
• gnu glibc 2.13
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://dividead.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/glibc-timezone-integer-overflow/ Exploit
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-December/084452.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97ac2654b2d831acaa18a2b018b0736245903fd2 sourceware.org
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-12/msg00037.html Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761245 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://dividead.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/glibc-timezone-integer-overflow/ Exploit
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-December/084452.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97ac2654b2d831acaa18a2b018b0736245903fd2 sourceware.org
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-12/msg00037.html Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761245 bugzilla.redhat.com